Justin Trudeau projected to remain Prime Minister in Canadian Election

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will win enough seats in this 44th general election to form another minority government, the CBC News decision desk has projected.

In the end, the final seat tally may not look very different from the composition of the House of Commons when it was dissolved in early August — prompting even more questions about why an election was called during the a fourth wave of the pandemic in the first place.

It’s a reversal of fortunes for Trudeau. He launched this campaign in mid-August with a sizeable lead in the polls — only to see his support crater days later as many voters expressed anger with his decision to call an election during this health crisis. Two middling debate performances by Trudeau and renewed questions about past scandals also put a Liberal victory in question.

But in the end, voters decided the Liberal team should continue to govern a country that, while battered and bruised by a health crisis, has also fared well on key pandemic metrics like death rates and vaccine coverage.