Canada and the Anti-Austerity Movement

The election result in Canada was fascinating in many ways. As my Canadian colleague Jeremy Keehn wrote on Tuesday, and as Michael Ignatieff, a former leader of the triumphant Liberal Party, also noted, in the Financial Times, it represented a welcome repudiation of the politics of reaction and division exercised by Stephen Harper, the former Conservative Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau, Harper’s successor, won “not just because Canadians wanted a change of regime but also because Canadians wanted a change of politics,” Ignatieff wrote.

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