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
I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.
I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I'm very, very confident that's exactly what Canadians are going to do.
The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose.
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.
Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.
Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.
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.
Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.
I have made it clear that future candidates need to be completely understanding that they will be expected to vote pro-choice on any bills.
Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.