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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Canada’s Tories target Trudeau as they seek seismic shift in political landscape

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Justin Trudeau at a summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York City, on Sunday. Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters

Canada’s Conservative party will make its first bid to unseat prime minister Justin Trudeau this week, the latest attempt in its decade-long aim of restoring the Tories to power.

Buoyed by favourable polls, a cost of living crisis and an increasingly unpopular prime minister, the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, will introduce a motion of non-confidence in the minority government: a long-shot bid to force the government to call an election.

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