Canada's Trudeau regains momentum in election race after scandal: poll

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Canada's Trudeau regains momentum in election race after scandal: poll

Steve Scherer at the Ottawa Citizen

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/ca/idCAKCN1U423B-OCATP

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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is regaining momentum after a damaging political scandal and could win a general election scheduled for October, a Nanos Research poll showed on Tuesday.

The Liberals would win 34.6% of the vote if the election were held today compared with 30.4% for the Conservatives of Andrew Scheer, the survey showed. The left-leaning New Democratic Party would take 17.9% and the Greens 8.8%, it said.

Under Canada's electoral system, a party needs to win around 39% of the vote to gain a majority in the House of Commons. The Nanos poll, should current numbers hold, suggests the Liberals would only be able to form a minority government, leaving Trudeau reliant on other parties to push through legislation.

The Liberals had lost their lead over the Conservatives in March in a prior Nanos opinion poll, amid a scandal over alleged interference in a corporate corruption case involving SNC-Lavalin Group Inc that led to the resignation of two cabinet members.


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Canadian corporations are being bought up by international hedge funds. I'm not against Trudeau trying to make sure it is one company that stays in canadian hands especially when the attorney general had the option of a heavy fine. The wealth doesn't stay in canada if US hedge funds buy it. Sure canadians invest in US stocks so it is fair. Hedge funds should be regulated and taxed more. I don't like it and am glad neither did Trudeau with a corporation that is the pride of quebec. The new attorney general has yet to rule. But what hope is there of Lavalin staying a huge, global, engineering firm and canadian if it is banned from canadian projects for a decade.