Justin Trudeau's victory is a death knell for Canada's fledgling far-right

Canada's 43rd election campaign capped a particularly bruising year for Trudeau, but in the end his right-leaning rivals fared worse

Liberal supporters trickled into the party headquarters in downtown Montreal on Monday night, apparently worried that they were about to witness an electoral comeuppance for Justin Trudeau.

Yet any jitters quickly turned to cheers as the party secured a minority government, thereby rescuing Trudeau's legacy - and probably tilting Canada's political landscape further to the left in the process.