Canadians began voting in a general election yesterday, with surveys predicting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party could return with a weakened minority government or lose his grip on power entirely. The Liberals and the Conservatives, led by Andrew Scheer, were set for a near dead heat with pundits calling it one Canada’s closest elections ever. Polls opened at 1100 GMT in the province of Newfoundland in eastern Canada, the first of the country’s six time zones -- with some 27.4 million Canadians eligible to elect 338 members of parliament.