I don't think it was rigged. That was a time period when Stephen Harper and the Conservatives had been in power for a long time and had been involved in numerous corruption scandals and people were fed up with him. At the same time, Justin Trudeau came up. He's the son of a popular former-prime minister, promised a lot of things (legalizing weed, electoral reform) that made people inspired, and there was a strong movement of "anyone but Harper." That combined with an NDP party that still hadn't put itself together after Jack Layton died and a shitty Bloc Quebecois means that there wasn't any significant 3rd party to challenge Harper so everyone voted for Trudeau as the bet chance to get rid of Harper.
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I even voted for him. It was the first and only time I've ever voted liberal.
I don't think it was rigged. That was a time period when Stephen Harper and the Conservatives had been in power for a long time and had been involved in numerous corruption scandals and people were fed up with him. At the same time, Justin Trudeau came up. He's the son of a popular former-prime minister, promised a lot of things (legalizing weed, electoral reform) that made people inspired, and there was a strong movement of "anyone but Harper." That combined with an NDP party that still hadn't put itself together after Jack Layton died and a shitty Bloc Quebecois means that there wasn't any significant 3rd party to challenge Harper so everyone voted for Trudeau as the bet chance to get rid of Harper.
I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I even voted for him. It was the first and only time I've ever voted liberal.