Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MPis a Canadian politician who is the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and the leader of the Liberal Party. The second-youngest Canadian prime minister after Joe Clark, he is also, as the eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, the first child of a previous prime minister to hold the post...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 December 1971
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing.
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.
I have been incredibly lucky all my life. I've had a family that has loved me and given me incredible opportunities. I've gone to great schools. I've travelled across the country.
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.
Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.
People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.
People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.
People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.