Justin Trudeau Says He Will Resign As Canada’s Prime Minister

• 53-year-old Justin Trudeau announced that he is stepping down as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
• The party will choose a new leader. Once this happens, Trudeau will step down as prime minister.
• Trudeau has held the position since 2015 but has been repeatedly asked to resign in recent weeks.

Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he will step down as Canada’s prime minister once his party chooses a new leader.

“This country deserves real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I have to fight internal battles, I will not be the best option in this election,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa.

The Canadian leader said he will step down from the Liberal Party of Canada and cease being prime minister once his party selects a new leader “through a robust, national, competitive process.”

Trudeau, 53, has been Canada’s prime minister since 2015. His nine-year tenure as prime minister is coming to an abrupt end after weeks of turmoil within Trudeau’s own party, the Liberal Party.

Party colleagues have repeatedly called for him to resign after the Liberal Party lost three by-elections last year. In December, Trudeau’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced her abrupt resignation from her cabinet.

Freeland, who was also finance minister, said Trudeau offered her another cabinet position but she decided to resign because it was “the only fair and viable path for me.” She has been at odds with Trudeau over his push for more spending and how Canada should deal with the new Trump administration.

President-elect in November Donald Trump said he was planning introduce a 25% duty on goods from Canada and Mexico.

Since then, Trump has continued to mock Trudeau, calling him the “governor” of Canada, and joked about Canada becoming the 51st US state.

“The great state of Canada is stunned that the Secretary of the Treasury is resigning or has been fired from her position by Governor Justin Trudeau,” Trump said of Freeland’s resignation in a statement. True Social Post last month.

Shortly after Freeland’s resignation, opposition politician and New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh said his party would table a vote of no confidence in Trudeau when Parliament sits again in January.

Singh’s party entered into a confidence-and-supply agreement with Trudeau’s minority government in March 2022 but withdrew from it in September.

“I have called on Justin Trudeau to resign, and he should,” Singh wrote in an interview. open letter December 20.

The next general election in Canada is due by October 2025.