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The honeymoon will be all too brief.

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Justin Trudeau, the eldest son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, has resurrected his party, confounded his critics, defied the naysayers and trolls, overcome his own mistakes and resoundingly defeated two tough, smart, determined opponents who cannot have imagined anything like this outcome.

A minority was presaged by many polls. A majority, and a broad one at that, is beyond the Liberals’ wildest hopes.

In pulling this off, Trudeau, 43, has made history. Canada has its first political dynasty. The country also returns, at the New Democratic Party’s expense, to the status quo ante, before the late Jack Layton’s 2011 breakthrough; two major parties, Liberal and Conservative, facing each other across the aisle, with the NDP forming a rump.

Very soon, Prime Minister-designate Trudeau will say (if he hasn’t already), the real work begins. It will not be easy. It will, in fact, be extraordinarily hard – and not just because of the usual need for the victor to unite the country following a bitterly divisive, brutally long campaign.