Trudeau's Liberal Party Tilts Left With Big-Ticket Wish List
- Convention ends with calls for expanded healthcare spending
- Decriminalization of all drugs, sex work also backed in vote
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Canadian federal elections are typically a three-way race. Listening to Justin Trudeau, you’d hardly know it.
The prime minister’s Liberal Party, historically the centrist option, wrapped up its national convention Saturday in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with grassroots members backing a series of new social policies with a distinctly leftward lean, including expanded health programs and decriminalizing drug possession.