The Liberal Party leader held onto power in an election on 21 October, but unlike his first term, the prime minister does not hold a majority of seats in the 338-member House of Commons.
During the campaign, polls suggested that Mr Scheer had a chance to defeat Mr Trudeau, but in the end the Conservatives won decisively only in Canada's western oil patch, where the Mr Liberals did not pick up a single seat, but fared poorly in the more populous provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The Throne Speech is likely to be delivered on 5 December after the House elects a speaker, a government official said, but the confidence vote could come the following week.
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