Opinion

Canadian voters brilliantly delivered their message

Canada’s voters brilliantly calibrated how to send just the message they hoped to deliver: They wanted to give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a comeuppance but did not want a Conservative government.

Monday’s election achieved this outcome with near perfection. Trudeau will stay in office, but with a minority in the Parliament. His Liberal Party lost 20 seats and was narrowly defeated in the popular vote by Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party, 34.4 percent to 33.1 percent . Severe scolding administered.