The University of Montreal where Justin Trudeau studied engineering from 2002 to 2004.
Career
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2015
Justin Trudeau on the swearing-in day
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2015
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa.
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2015
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa.
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2015
Antalya, Turkey
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Antalya, Turkey, to attend the G20 Summit.
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2015
Antalya, Turkey
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey.
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2015
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts First Ministers' Meeting.
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2015
Valletta, Malta
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Valletta, Malta.
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2015
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Speech from the Throne procession and ceremony.
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2015
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Speech from the Throne procession and ceremony.
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2015
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Speech from the Throne procession and ceremony.
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2015
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Speech from the Throne procession and ceremony.
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2015
150 Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A4, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau answers questions at the National Press Building in Ottawa.
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2015
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thanks Pearson International Airport staff for their help in welcoming Syrian refugees.
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2015
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Roméo Dallaire in his Centre Block office.
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2015
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in an interview in Vancouver.
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2015
6880 Chemin de la Côte-de-Liesse, Saint-Laurent, QC H4T 2A1, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau visit Moisson Montréal to make Christmas baskets with volunteers.
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2016
Canadian Centre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the Canadian Centre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies.
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2016
St. Andrews by-the-Sea, New Brunswick, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a spaghetti dinner in St. Andrews by-the-Sea.
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2016
Davos, Davos Region, Switzerland
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland.
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2016
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the 27th Annual Dragon Ball Gala in celebration of the Chinese New Year.
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2016
Québec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family visits Bonhomme's Ice Palace at the "Carnaval de Québec."
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2016
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Irwin Cotler in Ottawa.
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2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a reception celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the EU's diplomatic presence in Canada.
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2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner.
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2016
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States
Prime Minister Trudeau and then United States President Barack Obama hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House.
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2016
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with families in Toronto to discuss Budget 2016.
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2016
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with families in Toronto to discuss Budget 2016.
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2016
31 Caroline St N, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo.
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2016
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Premier Brad Wall in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a town hall on global health and makes an announcement related to the Global Fund.
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2016
ZIP CODE, Hai Bà Trưng, Phường Phúc Thắng, Phúc Yên, Vĩnh Phúc, Vietnam
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visiting Honda Vietnam.
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2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with His Majesty the Emperor of Japan.
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2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signs a condolence book for the victims of the Orlando tragedy at the United States Embassy.
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2016
Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the National Aboriginal Day Sunrise Ceremony in Gatineau, Quebec.
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2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Signing Ceremony and holds a joint media availability with then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
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2016
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Montréal Pride Parade.
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2017
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, United States
Prime Minister Trudeau and United States President Donald Trump hold a joint press conference at the White House.
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2017
Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Chancellor Merkel welcomes Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany.
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2017
First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States
Prime Minister Trudeau meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at the Capitol in Washington.
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2017
London, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits 3M in London, Ontario.
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2017
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with representatives of the Union des municipalités du Quebec in Montréal.
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2017
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Philpott and Parliamentary Secretary Schiefke meet with members of the Prime Minister's Youth Council in Montréal.
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2017
Vatican City, Vatican
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau meet with His Holiness Pope Francis in Vatican City.
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2017
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sits down with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
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2017
75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a University of Ottawa convocation ceremony.
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2017
199 Berrigan Dr, Nepean, ON K2J 5C6, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with students at Berrigan Elementary School in Ottawa to celebrate Canadian Multiculturalism Day.
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2017
1 Sussex Dr, Ottawa, ON K1A 0A1, Canada
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Britain's Prince Charles at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
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2017
Hamburg, Germany
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the G20 Leaders' Retreat in Hamburg, Germany.
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2017
1034 Rue du Phare, Rimouski, QC G5M 1L8, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse in Quebec.
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2017
Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with people along the Percé boardwalk in Quebec.
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2017
Wellington St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5A4, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a commemorative ceremony honouring the 75th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid, at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
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2017
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Prime Minister of Fiji Frank Bainimarama in Montréal.
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2017
501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with media at the Canadian Embassy in Washington following his meeting with President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, earlier in the day.
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2017
Plaza de la Constitución S/N, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06066 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a joint media availability with then President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, at the National Palace in Mexico City.
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2017
Hanoi, Vietnam
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in Hanoi for his first official visit to Vietnam.
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2017
Manila, Philippines
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits a Jollibee restaurant in Manila, Philippines.
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2017
Beijing, China
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a Canadian Politician Bardish Chagger (far left) take part in a China-Canada tourism event at the Sina Weibo Headquarters in Beijing, China.
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2018
London, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau drops by the WFG Continental Cup of Curling in London, Ontario.
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2018
5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with then Governor of Illinois Bruce Rauner at the University of Chicago.
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2018
40 Presidential Dr, Simi Valley, CA 93065, United States
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Los Angeles.
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2018
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Mélanie Joly unveil the Action Plan for Official Languages 2018–2023: Investing in Our Future, in Ottawa.
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2018
Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then Premier of Quebec Philippe Couillard participate in an announcement in Chicoutimi about aluminum making technology.
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2018
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the Métis National Council-Crown Summit in Ottawa.
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2018
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Ontario Premier Doug Ford, in Toronto.
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2018
Brussels, Belgium
Prime Minister Trudeau, along with Ministers Chrystia Freeland and Harjit Sajjan, participates in the Brussels Summit Dialogue.
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2018
7 New Glasgow Road Rte 224, North Milton, PE C1E 0S7, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with seniors at the Milton Community Hall in Prince Edward Island.
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2018
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with President of Namibia, Dr. Hage G. Geingob, in his office in Ottawa.
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2018
New York, NY 10017, United States
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with then President of France, Emmanuel Macron, at UNHQ in New York City.
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2018
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister Chrystia Freeland speak with journalists following the conclusion of USMCA negotiations in Ottawa.
Achievements
Justin Trudeau
Membership
Awards
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for Canada
In 2012, as an elected Member of the House of Commons of Canada, Trudeau was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal as a member of the Canadian order of precedence.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in the Signing Ceremony and holds a joint media availability with then President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a commemorative ceremony honouring the 75th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid, at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.
501 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20001, United States
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with media at the Canadian Embassy in Washington following his meeting with President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, earlier in the day.
Plaza de la Constitución S/N, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México, Centro, Cuauhtémoc, 06066 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexico
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes part in a joint media availability with then President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, at the National Palace in Mexico City.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a Canadian Politician Bardish Chagger (far left) take part in a China-Canada tourism event at the Sina Weibo Headquarters in Beijing, China.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and then Premier of Quebec Philippe Couillard participate in an announcement in Chicoutimi about aluminum making technology.
In 2012, as an elected Member of the House of Commons of Canada, Trudeau was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal as a member of the Canadian order of precedence.
Connections
Father: Pierre Trudeau
Justin Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau
Mother: Margaret Trudeau
Justin Trudeau's paremts, Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair shortly after they were married. Photo by Fred Schiffer.
Spouse: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Justin Trudeau's wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
Son: Hadrian Grégoire
Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau with their son Hadrian Grégoire
Son: Xavier James
Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau with their son Xavier James
Daughter: Ella-Grace Margaret
Justin Trudeau with his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and their children Ella-Grace Margaret (far left) and Xavier James
Grandfather: James Sinclair
Justin Trudeau's maternal grandfather, James Sinclair. Photo by Arthur Roy.
5th-great-grandfather: William Farquhar
Justin Trudeau's 5th-great-grandfather, Major-General William Farquhar
colleague: Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel
colleague: Theresa May
Theresa May, one of former Justin Trudeau's colleagues
Justin Trudeau, in full Justin Pierre James Trudeau, is a Canadian politician, educator and public issues advocate. He has headed the Liberal Party since 2013 and has served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada since 2015.
Background
Ethnicity:
Trudeau is primarily of Scottish and French Canadian ancestry. His 5th maternal great-grandmother had a French father and Malaccan mother, which makes him the first Canadian Prime Minister to have confirmed non-European lineage. The politician also has remote Ono Niha roots.
Justin Trudeau was born to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, then the 15th Prime Minister of Canada, and Margaret Trudeau on December 25, 1971, in Ottawa, Canada. He is the oldest of three sons born in the family, Alexandre (Sacha) and Michel. Trudeau's grandfather James Sinclair was Minister of Fisheries in the cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. The politician is a grandson of attorney and businessman Charles-Émile Trudeau and the 5th-great-grandson of Major-General William Farquhar.
Education
Justin Trudeau's parents divorced when he was six. As his mother moved out, Justin and his two younger brothers were raised by a single father, who resigned as Prime Minister that same year.
In 1976, at the insistence of his mother, Justin began his formal education at Rockcliffe Park Public School, Ottawa. He then attended the Lycée Claudel d'Ottawa for one year before becoming a student of the private Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in 1985 which his father had attended. Along with brothers, Justin Trudeau spent the summers in Camp Ahmek, on Canoe Lake, in Algonquin Provincial Park, where he later earned his first money as a camp counselor.
While studying at McGill University, Trudeau met his future Principal Secretary, Gerald Butts. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1994, Justin worked as a snowboard instructor while earning a bachelor's degree in education from the University of British Columbia four years later.
After returning to Quebec in 2002, Trudeau began and then abandoned engineering studies at the University of Montreal two years later. He also pursued but did not complete a Master of Arts in environmental geography at McGill.
Justin Trudeau has honorary Doctorate and Doctor of Laws degrees from the University of Edinburgh and New York University respectively.
The start of Justin Trudeau's career can be counted from his teaching activity in Vancouver in the early 2000s. After graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1998, Trudeau served as a substitute teacher at local schools and as a full educator of high-school French and elementary-school math at the private West Point Grey Academy.
Trudeau's eulogy that he delivered at his father's funeral in 2000 put him into the national spotlight. He was sought out first as a speaker, promoting volunteerism to youth across the country. Rejecting offers to start career in politics, Justin Trudeau went to Montreal where he joined the staff of a local radio station and covered the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Three years later, he played the part of a legendary soldier Talbot Papineau the TV miniseries The Great War. Apart from being an unpaid spokesman for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Trudeau chaired the board of directors of Katimavik, the national youth volunteer organization established by his father in 1977, from 2002 to 2006.
After some time of avoiding the political field, Justin Trudeau finally got involved into the area, and took part in the 2007 campaign for a Parliament seat representing Montreal's district of Papineau. He won the race the next year, and was reelected in 2011. He acted as party spokesman on youth and multiculturalism, citizenship and immigration, and amateur sports, among other issues. Trudeau won over conservative senator Patrick Brazeau in a notable 2012 charity boxing match.
Considered by many as a rising political force for the Liberal Party, he became its leader receiving about 80 percent of more than 100,000 votes in 2013 elections. The Conservatives met the victory with strong skepticism, calling Trudeau bad prepared for the role of the country's leader.
Justin Trudeau faced the same criticism while participating in the federal election campaign two years later. Stephen Harper, the leader of the ruling Conservative Party, and many other rivals questioned much of Trudeau's sloganeering, including his suggestions that the economy should be grown not from the top down but "from the heart outwards." However, such a positive campaign resonated among the constituents who gave 39.5 percent of their votes to the Liberal Party, in contrast with 32 percent for the Conservatives and about 20 percent for the New Democratic Party.
Probably the greatest political crisis of Trudeau's premiership started in February 2019, after SCN-Lavalin affair. The members of the Prime Minister's staff were accused of improperly pressing Jody Wilson-Raybould, attorney general and justice minister, to take actions to halt the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin, a huge Quebec-based construction and engineering company. The company had been charged with corruption and fraud stemming four years earlier. Several provocative images, revealed at the time, which featured Trudeau wearing "blackface" at performances during his educational activity in the early 1990s, brought into question the authenticity of his outspoken championing of inclusivity and tolerance. A contrite Trudeau repeatedly apologized to the country.
Although the Conservative Party won the popular vote, having about 34 percent compared with about 33 percent for the Liberals, Justin Trudeau's party secured 157 seats in the House of Commons, 27 seats fewer than they won four years earlier.
At 43 years old, Justin Trudeau became known as the second youngest person to be appointed Prime Minister of Canada, after Joe Clark who occupied the post a day before his 40th birthday in 1979. Trudeau is also the second child in the history of Canada, born to a ruling Prime Minister.
The Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau's leadership won the elections in 2012, having, as of today, the largest increase of seats in the Canadian Parliament, from 36 to 184.
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Religion
Justin Trudeau's mother, an Anglican, converted to the faith of her husband, a devout Roman Catholic, just before their wedlock. Trudeau was baptized at Ottawa's Notre Dame Basilica on January 16, 1972, having his father's niece Anne Rouleau-Danis as godmother and his mother's brother-in-law Thomas Walker as godfather.
Till the age of 18, Justin was a frequent guest in the church and regularly prayed each night before going to bed. The death of his brother Michel as the result of an avalanche in 1998 pushed him to regain the faith. In 2011, Trudeau said that his "own personal faith is an extremely important part of who he is and the values that he tries to lead with."
Politics
From the very start of the 2015 federal election campaign in early August, Trudeau argued that three years of deficit spending would be necessary to finance spending on infrastructure improvements for the good of society and the economy, in contrast with the more centrist opinion of the New Democratic Party's leader Thomas Mulcair who believed that any expansion to social programs would be dependent on achieving a balanced budget.
Among Trudeau's campaign promises was a pledge to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet, which he followed up on, bringing 15 women into his 30-member cabinet. Another of Trudeau's campaign promises was a pledge to decriminalize recreational marijuana. The policy was founded upon two principal goals: the desire to protect children (Trudeau acknowledged a study of 29 countries that indicated that young people in Canada already had the easiest access to obtaining illegal marijuana) and a commitment to preventing organized crime from profiting from the sales of illegal marijuana.
The pledge moved a step closer to fruition when Minister of Health Jane Philpott announced in April 2016 that in spring 2017 the government would be introducing legislation to legalize and regulate marijuana. In mid-June of 2018 the House of Commons and the Senate fulfilled this campaign promise by voting to approve legalization of recreational marijuana use throughout Canada. Pending formal approval of the legislation by the governor-general, details remained to be worked out.
In March 2016, Trudeau and his family made a state visit to Washington, D.C. The amiable comradeship that was much on display between Trudeau and United States President Barack Obama was a marked contrast to the chilly relationship that had existed between Obama and Trudeau's predecessor, Stephen Harper. Trudeau and Obama both shared a concern for protecting the environment against climate change. In December 2016 Trudeau's announcement that Canada was declaring a five-year ban on the licensing of drilling in all of its Arctic waters – with climate and marine science-based review to come at the end of that time – correlated with a couple of Obama's memorandums that indefinitely banned oil and gas development in the entirety of the United States portion of the Chukchi Sea, the majority of the Beaufort Sea, and some 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) along the Atlantic coast.
The results of the 2016 United States presidential election made Trudeau face the challenge of finding common language with its winner, Republican Donald Trump, who was Trudeau's opposite ideologically on most issues and who came into office having pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
In January 2017, Trump signed an executive order barring all refugees from seeking asylum in the United States for a 120-day period and blocking entry by citizens of Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, and Syria for 90 days. Trudeau commented the act on Twitter, saying, "To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength."
Such an opened policy of diversity was followed by a violent response on January 29 when a shooter attacked a mosque in Quebec city during evening prayers, killing six individuals and wounding a number of others. Trudeau characterized the episode as "terrorist attack on Muslims" but reaffirmed his belief that Canada drew strength from its diversity and that religious tolerance was a core value for Canadians.
The continued influx of migrants in 2018 limited the Canadian government's capacity to process their requests for asylum and provide for their needs. The opposition accused the Trudeau government of having lost control of immigration, and the government began trying to dissuade potential border crossers.
On April 25, 2016, John Ridsdel, a former Canadian mining executive, was beheaded in the Philippines by the Abu Sayyaf Group, a Filipino militant Islamist organization. Although negotiations had been undertaken with the militants, it was the official policy of the Canadian government not to pay ransoms for hostages. Trudeau expressed outrage in response to the incident.
Views
Justin Trudeau has expressed his positive opinion on the protection of abortion rights during election campaign of 2015. He pledged that potential Liberal candidates who didn't support that policy wouldn't be included into the Party. The position was strongly criticized by conservative Catholics, including former member of the parliament Jim Karygiannis and Toronto cardinal Thomas Collins.
Quotations:
"I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching."
"We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children."
"Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void."
"I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary."
"At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing."
"Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls."
"Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends."
"I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world stage, but we can be very helpful in modelling solutions that work."
"We're investing billions of dollars in housing, in home care on the medical side. We're investing billions of dollars in public transit that is not just creating good jobs now but is going to help people get to and from their good jobs in more reliable ways."
"I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen."
"Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids."
"Ours was not a normal or easy life."
"As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do."
Membership
Justin Trudeau was a member of the McGill University's Debating Union.
Personality
Justin Trudeau is obviously one of the most stylish politicians on the world arena. Following the necessary dress code as befits to a statesman, classic suits and brown lace-ups, he has meanwhile a secret detail in his wardrobe, a rich collection of fun socks.
Trudeau has practiced such challenging sports like white water rafting, bungee jumping and snowboarding. In one of his 2017 interviews, the politician has stated that he is a massive reader. He mentioned La part de l'autre by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Gardens of Democracy by Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer, and Champlain's Dream by David Hackett Fischer in his must-read list.
Physical Characteristics:
Justin Trudeau is 1.88 meters tall. He is probably the only of the current politicians who has a tattoo. Placed on his left arm, the image featuring the large Earth inside a Haida raven is designed by a Haida artist Robert Davidson. The fact has been largely discussed by media since the tattoo was first discovered by the audience in 2012.
The University of Toronto sociology professor Michael Atkinson is positive about the fact, saying that Trudeau "speaks to a generation of people who are looking for something different in terms of leadership and their sense of self, style and approach to civic engagement" that's why "his tattoo is a good indicator of the man and what he represents."
Interests
sport
Music & Bands
Drake, Shawn Mendes, Hedley
Connections
Justin Trudeau married Sophie Grégoire, a Canadian TV and radio host, on May 28, 2005, in a Roman Catholic Montreal's Sainte-Madeleine d'Outremont Church. The couple has three children, two boys, Xavier James and Hadrian Grégoire, and one girl, Ella-Grace Margaret.
Father:
Pierre Trudeau
(born October 18, 1919 – died September 28, 2000)
Pierre Trudeau, in full Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, served as the 15th Prime Minister of Canada for two consecutive terms, from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
Mother:
Margaret Trudeau
(née Sinclair; born September 10, 1948)
Margaret Trudeau is a Canadian author, actress, photographer, former TV talk show presenter, and public activist for people with bipolar disorder, which she's got herself. A wife of Pierre Trudeau till 1984, Margaret is the first woman in Canadian history to have been both the first lady of the country and the mother of the leader of the country.
Spouse:
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
(born April 24, 1975)
A former TV presenter, Sophie Grégoire is occupied with charity work and public speaking, centering primarly on women's and children's problems.
Son:
Hadrian Grégoire
(born February 28, 2014)
Son:
Xavier James
(born October 18, 2007)
Daughter:
Ella-Grace Margaret
(born February 5, 2009)
Grandfather:
James Sinclair
(born May 26, 1908 – died February 7, 1984)
Sinclair was the father of Justin Trudeau's mother, Margaret Trudeau.
5th-great-grandfather:
William Farquhar
(born February 26, 1774 – died May 11, 1839)
Farquhar worked in the East India Company, and then was first British Resident and Commandant of colonial Singapore.
Before becoming the first female chancellor of Germany in 2005, politician Angela Merkel served as the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018.
colleague:
Theresa May
(born October 1, 1956)
A British politician, May was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019.
Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex, commonly known as Prince Harry, is a member of the British royal family. He was officially styled Prince Henry of Wales until his marriage.
Elizabeth II, in full Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, officially Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other realms and territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from February 6, 1952. In 2015 she surpassed Victoria to become the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
References
Justin Trudeau: The Natural Heir
This unauthorized biography provides a rare look at the real Justin Trudeau, retracing his steps from his early days to the height of power.
2016
Trumping Trudeau
A book by Ezra Levant, the best-selling author of Ethical Oil and other trouble-making books.
2017
Justin Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy
The book offers the comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy under the government of Justin Trudeau, with a concentration on the areas of climate change, trade, Indigenous rights, arms sales, refugees, military affairs, and relationships with the United States and China.
Justin Trudeau
The book introduces readers to the political career of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Engaging infographics, thought-provoking discussion questions, and eye-catching photos, it gives the reader an invaluable look into Canada and the office of its current leader.
The Justin Trudeau Speeches
The volume contains moving and progressive collection of Justin Trudeau's early speeches from 2008 to 2012, beginning with his landmark first address to Canada's Parliament in 2008.
