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Canada: Prime Minister Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act against “Freedom Convoy”

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After the elections, what way forward for the Left in Canada?

September 28, 2021 Elisabeth Wichser, CWI Canada 

Justin Trudeau has been re-elected by the slimmest majority of any prime minister in Canadian history, at just 32%. His government called a special election, hoping to gain seats and secure a majority, but the […]

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