Trudeau Rejects Formal Coalition and Vows to Govern Case-By-Case
- PM reiterates commitment to expand Trans Mountain oil pipeline
- Liberals must work with other parties in minority parliament
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who lost his parliamentary majority in Canada’s election this week, will forgo any formal governing agreement with another party and instead move ahead with legislation on a case-by-case basis.
“It is not in our plans at all to form any sort of formal coalition -- formal or informal coalition,” Trudeau said Wednesday in his first press conference after the vote Monday that saw his Liberals win 157 of the legislature’s 338 districts. “I intend to sit down with all party leaders in the coming weeks.”