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The ruling Conservatives barely held on to their traditional seat of late Jim Flaherty’s suburban Toronto riding while easily managing to retain another riding in their Alberta stronghold. Having said that, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals once again stole the show by demonstrating extraordinary momentum in the two byelections on Monday.
Quite noticeably, the Liberals were the only ones to increase their vote bank in both ridings, that also with considerable gains. The Liberals’ vote share almost tripled in Whitby-Oshawa, where a newbie political candidate, Celina Caesar-Chavannes, came within eight points of knocking off the Tories’ Pat Perkins, who is a high-profile former two-term Whitby mayor endorsed by Flaherty’s family and a long list of senior cabinet ministers. Whereas on the other hand, the Liberals’ support in Alberta’s Yellowhead riding also grew almost seven-fold compared to the negligible three per cent captured in 2011, when the party ran fourth behind the NDP and Greens.
Liberals have persistently shown improvement in almost every byelection since Trudeau took the leaders’ position nearly 19 months ago. The streak continued on Monday as results helped further confirm the speculations that the Liberals are the only one to pose real threat for elected Conservatives in the upcoming general election in less than year. Addressing party workers at Caesar-Chavannes’ headquarters in Whitby, Trudeau, stated that “you proved that positive change for Canada is coming soon,” adding that “and that it can’t come from a tired old government. Only the Liberal party can bring it.”
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