Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau was prime minister of Canada for nine years, from November 2015 to March 2025, the son of Pierre Trudeau who had been a drama teacher and a snowboard instructor, took a Liberal party in third place with thirty-four seats to a majority in one election on sunny ways and a cabinet that was half women because it was 2015, legalised cannabis, brought in a carbon tax and a child benefit, took in twenty-five thousand Syrian refugees in his first winter, renegotiated NAFTA with the first Trump administration, was found by the ethics commissioner to have broken the law twice, over a billionaire's island and over pressuring his attorney-general to spare SNC-Lavalin, survived the blackface photographs of 2019 and the truckers' occupation of Ottawa in 2022, which he ended with the Emergencies Act, and resigned in January 2025 with his party twenty points behind and his finance minister gone in public over his fiscal plans, whereupon the second Trump administration's tariffs and talk of a fifty-first state turned the election his successor won. He was born on Christmas Day 1971 in Ottawa while his father was prime minister, grew up at 24 Sussex Drive, taught French and drama in Vancouver, gave the eulogy at his father's funeral in 2000 that made him a public figure, and won a working-class Montreal seat in 2008. A charity boxing match in 2012 against a Conservative senator, which he won, was the moment the party noticed him. He took the leadership in 2013 and the election of October 2015 with 184 seats. The first term was the programme. There were the refugees, the tax cut for the middle class, the pipeline he bought for four and a half billion dollars to get built, the inquiry into missing indigenous women, and the assisted-dying law. The second, from the minority of 2019, was the pandemic, in which the government paid two thousand dollars a month to everyone who lost work and the deficit went to three hundred and fifty billion. The third, from 2021, was the housing crisis, the immigration numbers the country turned against, and the Indian government's agents in the killing of a Sikh in British Columbia, which he named in parliament. Chrystia Freeland's resignation letter of 16 December 2024 ended it. He announced on 6 January that he would go when a leader was chosen, and Mark Carney was, on 9 March.
- Lived: 1971 CE – ?
- Nationality: Canadian
- Roles: prime minister, politician
