Canada has a new prime minister

Justin Trudeau speaks to supporters.
Photo by Arlen Redekop/The Vancouver Sun

Canada has a new prime minister
Adapted from cbc.ca by Nila Gopaul

Canada has a new prime minister.
Justin Trudeau is the leader of the Liberal Party.
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won 184 seats
of the 338 seats in parliament.
The Liberals will form a majority government.
The Conservatives will form the Official Opposition.

Trudeau, 43, was a Liberal MP* for over seven years.
He is the second-youngest Canadian prime minister in history,
after Joe Clark, who was 40.
His father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000)
was the prime minister of Canada
from April 20, 1968, to June 4, 1979, and again
from March 3, 1980, to June 30, 1984.
*Member of Parliament

Justin Trudeau was born in Ottawa, Ontario,
on December 25, 1971.
Trudeau was a high school teacher.
He always loved politics.
But after his father’s death, he became more involved
with the Liberal Party throughout the 2000s.

Trudeau has three children.
He is married to Sophie Grégoire.
Sophie is a journalist and an activist.

Trudeau would like to
increase taxes on Canadian citizens
who make more than $200,000 a year.
He says he will lower taxes for the middle class.
For more information on what Trudeau’s Liberals believe, click here.

Trudeau told a crowd in Montreal
on October 19, 2015:
“I will be the prime minister of all Canadians.”
“In Canada better is always possible.”

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