Election night winners and losers

It’s 2019 all over again.

After all that, let’s do a quick rundown of winners and losers from an election that changed almost nothing:

Loser: Justin Trudeau. That Willy Wonka video the Tories posted to Twitter just before the writ dropped might have been the cringiest thing in the history of the world, but its premise wasn’t wrong. Trudeau saw an opportunity to convert his minority government into a majority, and blew it. He’s still the PM, so he’s got that going for him, but he’s really in no better position than he was before this ugly, divisive and unnecessary campaign started, and his hubris cost some Liberal cabinet ministers their jobs.

Loser: Erin O’Toole. If you compare the Tories’ election night result to the polls this past summer, it doesn’t look too bad. When you compare it to the party’s 2019 results under the uninspiring Andrew Scheer, though, it’s a crushing disappointment. The CPC made some gains in Atlantic Canada, but these were offset by losses in the Greater Toronto Area.

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