Raising voter fears helped Trudeau to victory in Canada

OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pulled off a second consecutive election win on Monday with a late change in tactics designed to scare progressive voters who showed signs of abandoning Liberal candidates, four Liberal campaign sources said.

"The Liberals like to talk progressive, but they govern conservative," Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democrats, said on Oct 15."I want people to dream big. Don't settle for less."Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin used the same fear-inspiring technique in the last week of 2004 election, during which he managed to fight off a challenge from the Conservatives.

"You'd rather people voted enthusiastically for you rather than against someone else, but at the end of the day, who won?" Manley said in a phone interview.The victory was all the more remarkable because Liberal campaign officials had heard from the first day about deep dissatisfaction with Trudeau from long-time supporters.

"The thing that has absolutely frustrated me the most is that the economy has really been smoking ... and he has not sung that song," said the Liberal legislator. Unlike 2015, when the Liberals had a year to get ready for the election, two of the Liberal campaign officials said, preparations this time were delayed by months as the party struggled with the pressures of governing and the after-effects of the ethics scandal.

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