The rise and fall of Canada’s Justin Trudeau • FRANCE 24 English

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday, saying he will leave office as soon as the ruling Liberal party chooses a new leader after months of slumping polls and internal division. France 24 looks back at his rise to power, and the events that led to his downfall.
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15 comments

  1. Justin Trudeau's resignation in 2025 closes a decade as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister—a period that began with high hopes but ended in broken promises, ethical scandals, and growing public frustration. While he introduced notable policies like legalizing cannabis, carbon pricing, and the Canada Child Benefit, his tenure is overshadowed by soaring intlation, a housing crisis, and controversies like SNC-Lavalin and the WE Charity scandal.
    With just nine months until the October election, the 24th Prime Minister will simply be a placeholder as Canadians prepare for a likely Conservative victory, with Pierre Poilievre expected to become the 25th Prime Minister.
    Trudeau's resignation isn't accountability-it's the overdue conclusion of a decade many see as marked by economic struggles, political scandals, and a loss of trust. The Trudeau era is over, but its failures will leave a lasting mark on Canada's future.

  5. Just so you know…

    Very little you hear about Trudeau outside of Canada is true.

    He was from the very start plagued by a disinformation campaign and character assassination on the part of conservatives here, who have embraced the American Republican style of politics, and it will take years before his actual performance and legacy can be assessed fairly without interference from online trolls, both foreign and domestic.

    Every accomplishment he achieved has been denigrated.
    Every mis-step he made has been magnified to catastrophic proportions, no matter how minor.

    In fact you can read some of it here. Trudeau was neither the best Prime Minister Canada has had, nor the worst, but somewhere in the middle, and that's not bad considering the global events that piled on top of him during his tenure. Canada has come through things like the pandemic and the inflation crisis no worse than other countries and better than some. And the current 'crisis' in the Canadian government that pushed his party to demand his resignation was manufactured by stalling and bullying tactics in Parliament by the conservative party at a time when we should have been united against the threat posed by Trump. 

    Shameless.

  9. Justin Trudeau wasn't even close to our youngest Prime Minister. Joe Clark was, he was sworn in a day before his 40th birthday. Trudeau was 43.

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