Justin Trudeau sketched out a blueprint for his government’s second term that tilts Canada further to the left on many issues — fighting climate change, expanding healthcare and strengthening gun control, but also promising lower taxes and expanded trade.

In a speech from the throne read by Canada’s governor-general, the former astronaut Julie Payette, Mr Trudeau also positioned the North American country as a “coalition-builder” in an uncertain world by renewing its commitment to Nato and UN peacekeeping and defending the rules-based international order.

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