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ByRobGillies The Associated Press TORONTO The Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau took an early lead in Ca- nadian elections Monday that pitted the son of one of Canada's most famous politicians against Stephen Harper, the Conservative politician who has led the country for almost a de- cade. Canada has shifted to the center-right under Harper, who has lowered sales and corporate taxes, avoided cli- mate change legislation and clashed with the Obama ad- ministration over the Key- stone XL pipeline. But after nearly 10 years in power, he has trailed in opinion polls behind Liberal leader Jus- tin Trudeau, the son of the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Polls have closed throughout Canada's Atlan- tic region. It will be a while before the rest of the coun- try catches up, with the last of the polls closing in Can- ada's Pacific Coast prov- ince of British Columbia at 10 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT). The governing Conser- vatives held 13 of Atlan- tic Canada's 32 seats and the New Democratic Party held six when the election was called but Liberals were leading in 30 of the region's districts in early vote counting. "A sea of change here. We are used to high tides in At- lantic Canada. This is not what we hoped for," said Peter MacKay, a former se- nior Conservative cabinet minister MacKay helped unite the right in Canada and previously served as de- fense and foreign minis- ter under Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conser- vative government before stepping down earlier this year. He made the remarks to the Canadian Broadcast- ing Corp. Liberal Sean Fraser won the seat previously held by MacKay, the justice minis- ter who decided not to seek re-election. Trudeau, who has re-en- ergized the Liberal Party since its devastating elec- toral losses four years ago, promises to raise taxes on the rich and run deficits for three years to boost govern- ment spending. His late fa- ther, who took office in 1968 and led Canada for most of the next 16 years, is a sto- ried name in Canadian his- tory, responsible for the country's version of the bill of rights. "We have a chance to bring real change to Can- ada and bring an end to the Harper decade," Jus- tin Trudeau said in Harp- er's adopted home province of Alberta, traditionally a Conservative stronghold. A Trudeau victory would ease tensions with the U.S. Although Trudeau sup- ports the Keystone pipeline, he argues relations should not hinge on the project. Harper has clashed with the Obama administration over other issues, including the recently reached Iran nuclear deal. Trudeau, a 43-year-old former school teacher and member of Parliament since 2008, would become the second youngest prime minister in Canadian his- tory if he wins. His opponents pilloried him as too inexperienced, but Trudeau embraced his boyish image on Elec- tion Day. Sporting jeans and a varsity letter jacket, he posed for photo stand- ing on the thighs of two his colleagues to make a cheer- leading pyramid, his cam- paign plane in the back- drop with "Trudeau 2015" painted in large red letters. Hurt when Canada en- tered a mild recession ear- lier this year, Harper, 56, made a controversy over the Islamic face veil a focus of his campaign, a decision his opponents seized on to de- pict him as a divisive leader. Paula Mcelhinney, 52, from Toronto, voted Liberal to get rid of Harper. "I want to get him out, it's about time we have a new leader. It's time for a change," she said. But Harper's "protect our economy" message res- onated with Anne Collis, a 61-year-old Toronto voter. "It was a tough decision for me. I normally vote Con- servative, but this election I wavered between him and the other parties be- cause Harper can be a bit of a bully," Collis said. "But in the end I like what he's done." A minority government in the 338-seat Parliament appears likely no matter which party wins the most seats, said Tom Flanagan, Harper's former campaign manager. That would mean the winning party would have a shaky hold on power and need to rely on another party to pass legislation. POLITICS Liberals take early lead in pivotal Canadian elections By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY It's now quite certain that Pope Francis' big summit on family issues won't endorse any changes to church doc- trine on the church's teach- ing about homosexuality or whether civilly remarried Catholics can receive Com- munion. And yet, it seems, every- thing has changed. From the crucial role Af- rican bishops have played in the debate, to calls to re- move "intrinsically disor- dered" from the church's language on gays, to the freedom bishops now en- joy to speak their minds on once-taboo issues, Francis' synod on the family has at the very least shaken up the church for years to come. And if Francis has his way, there's more ahead. Francis delivered a sleeper bombshell of a speech over the weekend kicking off the final week of the synod in which he called for nothing less than a revolution in the concept of the Catholic Church it- self. He said it's not a top- down organization with the pope in charge but rather an inverted pyramid where the summit — the pope — is underneath and in service to the "holy faithful people of God" who are its base. He called for a "healthy decentralization" of au- thority on certain problems from Rome to local bish- ops' conferences, and said the papacy itself should be rethought, with the pope guiding the church but re- ally just one bishop among many, one Catholic among many. "It's a very delicate mo- ment, where you realize that the relationship be- tween the church and the world is at stake," the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, a Jesuit close to Francis, said as the synod entered its third and crucial week. The 270 synod "fathers" are hammering out a fi- nal document to submit to Francis on Saturday con- veying a host of propos- als for how the church can better minister to Catholic families today. They will vote paragraph by para- graph on the text, amend- ing what has been a near- universally scorned draft working document. What Francis does with the final paper is up to him: He can use it as a basis for a document of his own, he can ignore it, or he can pub- lish it as a synod document. FAMILY Pope's synod: No changes, but things have changed By Josef Federman The Associated Press JERUSALEM The death of an Eritrean migrant who was shot and beaten by a mob that mistakenly be- lieved he was a Palestin- ian attacker set off a round of soul-searching Mon- day amid the jittery atmo- sphere sweeping Israel in a wave of unrest. Prime Minister Ben- jamin Netanyahu con- demned the vigilantism. Some critics accused Is- rael's leaders of fostering the charged climate, while others called for the swift prosecution of the crazed mob. "It is a disgrace to Israeli society, and those that car- ried out this lynching need to be found and brought to justice," said Yaakov Ami- dror, Netanyahu's former national security adviser. "Even if it was the ter- rorist himself, by the way, after he was shot, after he was neutralized and lying on the floor, you need to be an animal to torment him," he told Israel Radio. Nine Israelis have been killed in the past month in the attacks, mostly stab- bings, on city streets. At least 41 Palestinians have been killed — including 20 identified by Israeli author- ities as attackers; the rest were slain in clashes with Israeli forces. Amid the seemingly ran- dom attacks, Israelis have stocked up on mace and pepper spray, and some public officials are openly carrying personal weapons and encouraging the pub- lic to do the same. Security has been increased, and es- pecially in Jerusalem. The violence has led to fear and sometimes out- right panic. Following an attack at Jerusalem's bus station last week, a swarm of se- curity forces and armed ci- vilians ran along a central road in search of a second assailant following a false alarm. Elsewhere, an Is- raeli man stabbed a fellow Jew after mistaking his dark-skinned victim for an Arab. Palestinians in Jeru- salem say they are afraid of being shot if perceived to be a threat. But Sunday night's mob scene at the bus station in the southern city of Beer- sheba took things to a new level. The violence began when an Arab with a knife and gun killed a soldier, stole his weapon and opened fire, wounding nine peo- ple before being killed by police. In the mayhem, Hab- tom Zerhom, an Eritrean migrant in his late 20s, ran into the station to seek cover, police said. A secu- rity guard, mistaking Zer- hom for an attacker, shot him. 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