In light wool trousers, dress shoes and an overcoat that was partly open, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was minimally clothed for the minus 13 degrees Celsius weather on Monday when he stepped out of his official residence to announce his resignation. Mr. Ignatieff pulled on a Team Canada hockey jersey — conveniently Liberal red in…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has dismissed former US President Donald Trump’s idea of a US-Canada merger. Labeling it a distraction from US tariff threats, Trudeau made it clear that despite his recent resignation as Labour Party leader, Canada will not become the 51st state of the USA. Source link
Pierre Poilievre, the man who is the favorite to become Canada’s next leader, has painted his country as “broken” and ridden with “crime and chaos.” He has derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “wacko” and his ministers as “crazy,’’ “disastrous,’’ “incompetent and discredited.’’ In Parliament, he called a leftist opposition leader and former Trudeau…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered help to “our American neighbours” in the wake of the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, despite repeated attacks by US President-elect Donald Trump, including a threat to make Canada the “51st American state”. In a tweet on Thursday morning, Trudeau, who announced his decision to resign as Prime…
After 12 years leading the Liberal Party of Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said he was stepping down. His resignation sets off a succession battle in which some of the party’s most prominent faces will vie to replace him. In Canada’s political system, the leader of the Liberal Party, as the head of…
Justin Trudeau’s announcement on Monday that he would resign was the last card that Canada’s deeply unpopular prime minister, who had set his party on course to lose a national election, had left to play. The political levers he has pulled will give Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal Party a chance to reinvent itself without him. But…
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jagmeet Singh came down heavily on Justin Trudeau following the latter’s announcement to resign as the Prime Minister and chief of the ruling Liberal Party. Without mincing his words, Jagmeet Singh, a former Trudeau ally, said the Prime Minister “let Canadians down” by allowing “corporate greed to run wild”….
Justin Trudeau‘s nine-year tenure as Canada’s Prime Minister ended after losing support from former allies. The 53-year-old son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau won three consecutive terms, a rare feat in Canadian politics. He navigated Canada through Covid-19 pandemic and renegotiations of the North American trade agreement with the United States and Mexico under…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as the head of state and chief of the ruling Liberal Party after months of facing a stiff internal revolt with demands for him to step down. In his announcement on Monday, however, Trudeau said that he will remain in office until his successor is elected. As…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Monday that he would step down in the coming months, bowing to an angry electorate at a time of uncertain economic prospects and political infighting. The announcement, which came amid a gridlocked Parliament, left Canada in political flux just as the incoming Trump administration has vowed to…