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Mark Carney has landed the Liberals a stunning comeback and volition pb the enactment successful a number government, CBC News projects.
Carney volition request to enactment with absorption to propulsion done agenda
Catharine Tunney · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 3:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago
Mark Carney has landed the Liberals a stunning comeback and volition pb the enactment successful a number government, but fell abbreviated of securing a decisive mandate, CBC News projects.
It took until Tuesday day for the representation to go wide aft Elections Canada paused counting overnight, but the Liberals person clinched 169 seats, shy of the 172 needed for a majority. At slightest 1 riding, Terrebonne successful Quebec, is truthful adjacent it volition trigger an automatic recount.
The effect brings an constituent of instability to Parliament during uncertain and turbulent times.
Carney will need to collaborate with absorption members, astir apt the Bloc Québécois oregon NDP, to walk authorities and stave disconnected different predetermination successful the adjacent future.
While a Liberal triumph was wide connected predetermination night, immoderate races were excessively adjacent to call — with galore outstanding votes — to task whether it would beryllium a number authorities oregon not. Elections Canada paused counting peculiar and beforehand ballots astatine astir 4:30 a.m. Tuesday and resumed aboriginal that morning.
More to come.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Catharine Tunney is simply a newsman with CBC's Parliament Hill bureau, wherever she covers nationalist information and the RCMP. She worked antecedently for CBC successful Nova Scotia. You tin scope her astatine [email protected]
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