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Canada’s new electoral map makes Alberta look like a federal power backwater, but prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau insists that won’t be true under his new Liberal regime.

“One of the things I am most pleased with in the outcome of yesterday’s election is that we have strong voices from every single corner of the country — including four seats in Alberta, seats in the North, and seats right across the country,” he told his first postelection news conference in Ottawa.

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“I am committed as I have been for a long time to leading a government that’s focused on bringing Canadians together and actually listening to and respecting the other 337 voices that are in the House of Commons that were chosen by Canadians.”

He was referring to MPs of all parties. This appeared to be an esoteric Ottawa-type poke at the dictatorial style of departing Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Asked further if he’ll build bridges to the West, Trudeau said all regions of the country will get fair treatment from his government.