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Mark Carney speaks during his Liberal Party election campaign tour in Brantford, Ont., in April.

Justin Ling is a Montreal-based journalist and author of The 51st State Votes: Canada Versus Donald Trump , from which the following has been adapted.

The 45th Canadian election was nothing short of an existential exercise.

Saying that sentence out loud would have sounded melodramatic – somewhere between alarmism and a Liberal Party fantasy – just last year. Despite the usual high rhetoric of our political parties, most Canadian voters think of our democracy as relatively stable. We may get into histrionics about the prospect of our least favourite party winning, and we may half-jokingly promise to move to the United States if the other guy wins. But given that about a third of th

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