Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau
Born	25 December 1971 (age 53) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Political orientation	Neoliberalism Imperialism
Political party	Liberal

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (born 25 December 1971) is a Canadian politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025. He also served as the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 2013 to 2025 before being replaced by Mark Carney after a leadership election triggered by Trudeau's resignation.

Justin Trudeau is the eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who held the office from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984. He is most well known for repeatedly engaging in blackface despite his claimed support for diversity.

He said he supported the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples but later violated it by supporting pipelines and dams on indigenous land. He also refused to act to improve access to clean drinking water on indigenous reserves.

Early life

Justin Trudeau was born on December 25, 1971 in the Canadian capital Ottawa, as the eldest child of Margaret Trudeau and prime minister Pierre Trudeau. As the second child to ever be born to a sitting Canadian prime minister, Trudeau was a celebrity from birth and lived a privileged childhood meeting many world leaders. Trudeau grew up at 24 Sussex Drive, residence of the prime minister, from birth until his father left office in 1984, with the exception of June 1979 to March 1980 between his father's two terms.

Premiership

Domestic policy

Trudeau's policy on indigenous rights has been to claim support of them whilst failing to implement any actual support and violating treaties. In March 2016 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada published its landmark 94 calls to action to address the legacy of Indian residential schools in Canada but by September 2021 only 13 of these calls to action has been completed. In 2018 he approved the Trans Mountain Pipeline and expanded it despite promising he would not build new pipelines, demonstrating his hypocrisy on indigenous and environmental issues.

Foreign policy

Trudeau's administration adopted the typical Western position of supporting the NATO proxy war in Ukraine whilst funding Israel's war on Palestine and complicity in the Palestinian genocide. The regime has been increasingly anti-Palestine with racism rising and support for anti-Palestine legislature such as an anti-BDS bill being prevalent. Trudeau's government showed a clear double standard by issuing one million emergency visas for Ukrainians whilst taking in only 334 Palestinian refugees as of October 2024 with a cap of 5,000 total. Refugees fleeing more devastating conflicts in Africa and Asia are unwelcome as compared to the open-door policy for the White Ukrainian population.

Neo-Nazi scandal

See also Yaroslav Hunka#House of Commons of Canada visit

On 22 September 2023, Justin Trudeau, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and the House of Commons as a whole recognised Waffen-SS veteran and Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka for his service during the Second World War, lauding him as a "Ukrainian hero [and] a Canadian hero" and giving him two standing ovations. It was alleged that afterwards Trudeau held a private audience with Hunka.

Later it came out that Hunka was a Nazi collaborator, and after days of silence, Trudeau finally apologised (unconvincingly) for the incident on the behalf of the Canadian Parliament and Canada as a whole, stating that "It [the recognition of Hunka by the Canadian Parliament] was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust" and that Canada was "deeply sorry" for "the situation this put President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian delegation in." He blamed Speaker of the House Anthony Rota for the incident, stating that he was the one who invited him and who later wholly accepted responsibility for the scandal by stepping down, and asserting that "not one Parliamentarian was aware [that Hunka was a Nazi]."

When asked by Opposition politicians if the Prime Minister would "take personal responsibility" for having "allowed for a monumental, unprecedented, and global shame to unfold" in the House of Commons and if he would "personally apologise on behalf of himself" for the scandal as "it was his personal responsibility [...] to lead the government that has the [...] agencies that [...] should have vetted all individuals who were present," Trudeau dodged the question, first by apologising once again "on behalf of all of those in this House"; then by deflecting by reaffirming Canada's support for Ukraine and an "international, rules-based order" as well as the need to invest more in Holocaust education; and then by framing the suggestion that the government vet those who were present as a "partisan attack" on "the rights and privileges of Parliamentarians" by the Conservatives, who were supposedly "politicising" an apolitical issue.

Further Reading

House of Mirrors: Justin Trudeau's Foreign Policy