{"id":268131,"date":"2024-06-26T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=268131"},"modified":"2024-06-26T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T02:32:15","slug":"canada-conservatives-heap-pressure-on-pm-trudeau-with-by-election-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=268131","title":{"rendered":"Canada: Conservatives heap pressure on PM Trudeau with by-election win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.brudirect.com\/images\/news\/20240626-America.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Winning Conservative candidate Don Stewart<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>TORONTO,<strong>\u00a0June 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; <\/strong>The Conservatives have narrowly snatched the Toronto-St Paul&#8217;s seat from the Liberals, in a huge political upset that is expected to intensify political pressure on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidate Don Stewart won the closely watched by-election by a little more than 500 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre described Stewart&#8217;s win as a &#8220;shocking upset&#8221;, saying locals &#8220;voted to axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian political experts have described the loss as a shocking embarrassment to Trudeau and his party, as the electoral district was considered a Liberal stronghold &#8211; the party had held it for 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservatives have long struggled to win support in &#8220;Canada&#8217;s major urban cores&#8221;, so it is remarkable that they have successfully &#8220;penetrated fortress Toronto&#8221;, said Alex Marland, a politics professor at Acadia University in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart won with around 42% of the vote, with 15,555 ballots cast for him, according to Elections Canada. Liberal candidate Leslie Church took 14,965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Church said the &#8220;close result is disappointing, but it is a beginning, not an end&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday, voters in Toronto\u2013St. Paul&#8217;s sent us a clear message, that they want us to re-earn their trust. I hear that message loud and clear, and that&#8217;s exactly what we plan to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outcome comes as Trudeau has seen a significant drop in his popularity since taking over as PM in 2015, due to a host of issues including cost-of-living pressures affecting the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Canadian prime minister has repeatedly pledged to lead his party into the next nationwide poll &#8211; which is expected by October next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former MP Carolyn Bennett won the seat nine times before her recent resignation to become the country&#8217;s ambassador to Denmark. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO,\u00a0June 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The Conservatives have narrowly snatched the Toronto-St Paul&#8217;s seat from the Liberals, in a huge political upset that is expected to intensify political pressure on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Candidate Don Stewart won the closely watched by-election by a little more than 500 votes. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre described Stewart&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":268134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268135,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268131\/revisions\/268135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/268134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}