OTTAWA—It was a year ago today that Canadians headed to the polls in a federal election that elevated the third-place Liberals and Justin Trudeau into power with a comfortable 15-seat majority in the House of Commons. And, the political honeymoon for the Liberals appears little diminished a year later, with a variety of opinion polls placing support for the party consistently in the mid-40s to low 50s and the prime minister’s personal approval ratings even higher. Trudeau celebrated his first year in office on Wednesday with a string of media interviews in which he talked up the work his government has done in the last 12 months. “I’m going to let critics and journalists and Canadians make evaluations of how I’m doing,” he said in an interview with Breakfast Television Toronto. “I’m focused on what needs to be done, and that’s a question of growing the economy in ways that helps the middle class.”Trudeau said his government has done “a lot of big things” that are making a real difference in people’s lives, but added that “there’s a lot more to do.”

Source: thestar October 19, 2016 13:52 UTC