This week on The Writ podcast, Aaron Wherry, senior writer with the CBC and author of Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power, joins me to discuss the results of Monday’s election.

In the news

* Will this have been the last election for Trudeau and what will he do with this next term in office?

* The Conservatives and the decisions they need to make about where to go next with the party — more to the centre or back to the right.

* Whether the New Democrats should (or can be) satisfied with their modest gains.

* Maxime Bernier and the future of the People’s Party.

* What the durability of the Bloc Québécois, as well as other parties, means for the future of minority governments in Canada.

* Also: does Baden-Württemberg have a great electoral system, or the greatest electoral system?

Questions and answers

* Did the People’s Party actually cost the Conservatives any seats?

* What should we make of the Greens’ victory in Kitchener Centre?

* Biggest upset of the night.

#EveryElectionProject

* The 1965 Canadian federal election, which returned a parliament that looked nearly the same as the one elected in 1963.

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This week’s podcast title musical inspiration, from the inimitable Roy Orbison:

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