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ELECTED IN OCTOBER 2015 due to his widespread support in Quebec, Justin Trudeau (of the Liberal Party of Canada) came to power with promises to change foreign policy and elevate Canada's role as a global actor after nine years of rule by the Conservative Party. Two years after Trudeau assumed the post of prime minister, however, analysis of his government's foreign policy shows it is closer to that of the Conservative government of Stephen Harper (2006-2015), which was characterized by close ties to the foreign policies of the United States and Israel, than it is to the foreign policy of his Liberal predecessor, Prime Minister Jean Chretien (1993-2003), which was against the unilateral invasion of Iraq by the United States and Great Britain in 2003.
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