Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's career in photos
Jan. 6, 2025, 8:40 a.m. ET

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall on Dec. 20, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada. Canada's embattled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce a significant cabinet shuffle, days after the surprise resignation of his longtime number two shocked the nation.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves Parliament Hill after attending a cabinet meeting in Ottawa, Canada, on Dec. 20, 2024. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on Dec. 20, 2024, shook up his cabinet, changing one-third of his team as political turmoil threatened his leadership and tensions erupted with incoming US president Donald Trump. The reshuffle came at the end of a chaotic week in Ottawa spurred by the surprise resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who clashed with her boss over Trump's threats to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian imports.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to donors during the Laurier Club Holiday Party at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec, on Dec. 16, 2024.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives on Parliament Hill on Dec. 16, 2024, in Ottawa, Canada.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the opening session of the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 18, 2024.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) leaves the hotel for the airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 30, 2024. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Florida on November 29 for a dinner with Donald Trump at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago estate, as the incoming US leader promised tariffs on Canadian imports. The unannounced meeting comes at the end of a week that has seen Canada and Mexico scramble to blunt the impact of Trump's trade threats, which experts have warned could also hit US consumers hard.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during the APEC CEO Summit at the Convention Centre in Lima, on Nov. 15, 2024.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the third session of the G20 Leaders' Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 19, 2024.
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This handout picture released by APEC Peru 2024 shows Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) shaking hands with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit Leaders' Informal Dialogue in Lima, Peru, Nov. 15, 2024.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves after a press conference on Oct. 14, 2024, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, after Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats, including the country's ambassador. India and Canada each expelled the other's ambassador and five other top diplomats after New Delhi said its envoy had been named among "persons of interest" following the 2023 murder of Canadian citizen Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (C) shakes hands with Philippines' President Ferdinand Marcos Jr at the ASEAN-Canada special Summit during the 44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summits in Vientiane on Oct. 10, 2024.
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(left to right) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Joe Biden, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrive for the family photo at the Itsukushima Shrine during the G7 Summit on May 19, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan.
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US President Joe Biden meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Mexico City on Jan. 10, 2023, during the North American Leaders Summit.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau arrive at Westminster Abbey in London on Sept. 19, 2022, for the State Funeral Service for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. - Leaders worldwide will attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The country's longest-serving monarch, who died aged 96 after 70 years on the throne, will be honored with a state funeral on Monday morning at Westminster Abbey.
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Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, US President Joe Biden, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and France's President Emmanuel Macron took seat on a round table for their first working session on June 26, 2022 at Elmau Castle, southern Germany, where the German Chancellor hosts a summit of the Group of Seven rich nations (G7). - G7 leaders will be pressured to hold fast to climate pledges in Bavaria from June 26 to 28, as Russia's energy cuts trigger a dash back to planet-heating fossil fuels.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) greets Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, as they arrive in St Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, to begin a three-day Canadian tour on May 17, 2022.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters during a news conference on Parliament Hill on Feb. 11, 2022, in Ottawa, Canada. - Canadian leader Justin Trudeau faced mounting pressure from Washington Friday to end snowballing trucker-led blockades over Covid rules, as the protest epicenter of Ontario province declared a state of emergency.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives for a news conference on Jan. 9, 2020, in Ottawa, Canada. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that Canada had intelligence from multiple sources indicating that Iran mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner that crashed outside Tehran.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes hands with volunteers after voting on election day at a polling station on Oct. 21, 2019, in Montreal, Canada. Trudeau's Liberals and Andrew Scheer's Conservatives are in a close race in the federal election, possibly leading to a minority government if neither candidate gets the 170 seats needed to form a majority.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reads a story to Grade 1 and 2 students at a campaign stop at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Elementary School in London, Ontario, on Sept 16, 2019. - Polls showed Trudeau, once the youthful golden boy of Canadian politics, in a horse race with Conservative Andrew Scheer, who launched his bid for leadership by accusing the Liberal prime minister of lying "to cover up scandals."
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(From L) French Culture Minister Franck Riester, French Chief Architect of Historical Sites Philippe Villeneuve, Notre Dame cathedral rector Patrick Chauvet, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Canadian Ambassador to France Isabelle Hudon visit the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris on May 15, 2019, after it sustained major fire damage the previous month. - The April 15 fire destroyed the roof and steeple of the 850-year-old Gothic cathedral. Images of the ancient cathedral going up in flames sparked shock and dismay across the globe and in France, considered one of the nation's most beloved landmarks.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a private audience at Buckingham Palace in London on April 18, 2018.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers an address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Feb. 9, 2018, in Simi Valley, CA.
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Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto (L) US President Donald Trump (C) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sign a new free trade agreement in Buenos Aires on Nov. 30, 2018, on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit. - The revamped accord, called the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), looks much like the one it replaces. However, enough has been tweaked for Trump to declare victory on behalf of the US workers, who he claims were cheated by NAFTA.
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US Donald Trump (L) and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (R) stand together during the Welcome ceremony on the first day of the G7 Summit, on 8 June 2018 in La Malbaie, Canada. Canada will host the leaders of the UK, Italy, the US, France, Germany, and Japan for the two-day summit in La Malbaie.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a vigil at the Elgar Petersen Arena, home of the Humboldt Broncos, to honor the victims of a fatal bus accident on April 8, 2018, in Humboldt, Canada. Mourners in the tiny Canadian town of Humboldt, still struggling to make sense of a devastating tragedy, prepared Sunday for a prayer vigil to honor the victims of the truck-bus crash that killed 15 of their own and shook North American ice hockey.
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U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (L) shake hands during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 13, 2017, in Washington, DC. The two leaders participated in a roundtable discussion on the advancement of women entrepreneurs and business leaders.
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Leo Varadkar, Taoiseach of Ireland, left, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, middle, and Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre, right, walk along Boulevard Rene-Lvesque during the Pride parade in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Sunday, ug 20, 2017.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waves to the crowd as he marches in the Pride Parade in Toronto, June 25, 2017.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech after the signing of the CETA trade deal during the EU-Canada summit meeting on Oct. 30, 2016, at the European Union headquarters in Brussels. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and European Union leaders on October 30, 2016, finally signed a landmark trade deal seven years in the making after it was nearly torpedoed by a small region of Belgium. CETA removes 99 percent of customs duties between the two sides, linking the single EU market with the world's 10th largest economy.
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Prince Harry chats with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they watch a sledge-hockey match Mattany at the Athletic Centre on May 2, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Prince Harry is in Toronto for the 2017 Toronto Invictus Games launch before heading down to Miami and the 2016 Invictus Games in Orlando.
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President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hold a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 10, 2016, in Washington, DC. Trudeau and Obama met privately in the Oval Office before the press conference.
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking following British Prince Harry's announcement that Canada will be hosting the 2017 Invictus Games at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto on May 2, 2016. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said June 13, 2016 it was "likely" that a Canadian kidnapped by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines nearly nine months ago has been killed."It is with deep sadness that I have reason to believe that a Canadian citizen, Robert Hall, held hostage in the Philippines since Sept. 21, 2015, has been killed by his captors," Trudeau said in a statement.
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Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau arrives on stage in Montreal on Oct. 20, 2015, after winning the general elections.
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Liberal leader Justin Trudeau speaks at a rally at Goodwill Industries during a campaign stop in London, Ontario, on Oct. 7, 2015.
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Canadian Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau arrives at a victory rally in Ottawa on Oct. 20, 2015. Canada is "back" on the world stage, newly-elected prime minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday after a landslide victory that ended nearly a decade of conservative rule. "I want to say to this country's friends all around the world, many of you have worried that Canada has lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world over the past 10 years," Trudeau told a rally. "On behalf of 35 million Canadians, we're back".
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