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Canada’s Tories target Trudeau as they seek seismic shift in political landscape
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre to introduce motion of non-confidence in long-shot bid to force an election
Canada’s Conservative party will make its first bid to unseat prime minister Justin Trudeau this week, the latest attempt in its decade-long aim of restoring the Tories to power.
Buoyed by favourable polls, a cost of living crisis and an increasingly unpopular prime minister, the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, will introduce a motion of non-confidence in the minority government: a long-shot bid to force the government to call an election.
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