Canadian voters head to the polls as surveys predict Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party risks losing its majority
Justin Trudeau and family put his ballot for today's election in the ballot box in the Papineau area of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Polls opened at 1100 GMT in the provinces of Labrador and Newfoundland, in eastern Canada, the first of the country's six time zones. Polls will remain open in far western British Columbia until 0200 GMT on Tuesday, although the first results are expected to start at 2300 GMT.Neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives – the parties that have led Canada since Confederation in 1867 – are forecast to win enough support to secure an absolute majority of seats in parliament.
His image has been tainted by ethics lapses in the handling of the bribery prosecution of an engineering giant, while his campaign was rocked by the emergence of old photographs of him in blackface make-up. Campaign attack ads have included false accusations that Liberals would legalize hard drugs and the Tories would allow the proliferation of assault weapons.Along the bruising way, Trudeau and Scheer traded barbs.
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