Justin Trudeau

In the elections held on Monday, Trudeau's ruling Liberal Party again ended up 14 seats short of the 170-mark in the 338-member House of Commons. The Jagmeet Singh-led New Democratic Party (NDP) will again hold the balance of power as it increased its tally from 24 to 27. The main opposition Conservative Party ended up with a tally of 122 seats one up from the dissolved House. Among the 17 Indo-Canadian winners are Jagmeet Singh, former Minister Tim Uppal and three current Cabinet Ministers Harjit Singh Sajjan, Bardish Chagger and Anita Anand.

Trudeau's Liberal Party and the Erin O'Toole-led Conservative Party have been locked neck-and-neck and bounced back and forth in the lead position, with each claiming between 30 per cent and 32 per cent support in public polling, reports Xinhua news agency. A win for either would result in a minority government -- and for the governing Liberal Party, not the majority Trudeau sought when he called the snap election on August 15.

The Liberal Prime Minister gambled on an election he did not have to call. If the Conservatives win, he'll suffer the worst kind of bad beat. And if the Liberals scrape by, he'll still take heat for Canadians calling his bluff, the report said. Trudeau's proposition that the election needed to happen now, two years early and in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, has drawn repeated scrutiny

An election is needed now to allow Canadians to "weigh in on how we will end this pandemic" and "choose how we finish this", said Trudeau, who positioned his governing Liberal Party as best suited to continue the work it has done, particularly in obtaining enough vaccines for everyone eligible to receive a dose, reports Xinhua news agency.

Amid calls for accountability and to go beyond lowering flags at federal buildings, Trudeau told the media on Monda that Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal will discuss what role his government should be playing in response to the development, reports Xinhua news agency.

In June 1940, after Italy joined the war as an ally to Germany, the government interned more than 600 people of Italian heritage, and about 31,000 Italian Canadians across the country were declared "enemy aliens", and many experienced discrimination, lost their jobs, or saw their businesses boycotted or vandalised,.

"To protect your health and limit the spread of Covid-19, we're extending the measures currently in place by another 30 days. Non-essential travel between our two countries remains restricted until June 21," the Prime Minister tweeted on Thursday. The restriction, which was enforced in March 2020, has been renewed every month since, reports Xinhua news agency.

Trudeau informed PM Modi about Canada's requirement for Covid-19 vaccines from India. Modi on his part assured the Canadian PM that India would do its best to support Canada's vaccination efforts, just as it had done for many other countries already.