On October 19th, 2015, the Liberal party lead by Justin Trudeau won the federal elections (Duffy, 2015). It received a surprising 39.6% of votes, securing it a majority government with 184 seats in the House of Commons (Duffy, 2015). Before this fateful day, many doubted that Trudeau would sit as Prime Minister in the near future, much less at the head of a majority government (Duffy, 2015). In fact, during his campaign, the Papineau deputy was frequently asked where he would stand if Harper was re-elected at the head of a minority government (Shprintsen and McKenna, 2015). His response was that there were “no circumstances under which [he] could support Harper”; Thomas Mulcair, the leader of the New Democratic Party, made a similar remark
