Justin Trudeau

Justin Pierre James Trudeau (French: Justin Trudeau; born 25 December 1971) is a Canadian politician. He was elected the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada in 2015 as the leader of the Liberal Party. He is the second youngest Prime Minister of Canada after Joe Clark. His father, Pierre Trudeau, also served as Canada's former prime minister.

Born in Ottawa, he studied at Trudeau College Jean-de-Brave. He graduated from McGill University in 1994 and from the University of British Columbia in 1997. He was the first to reveal his personality in public at his father's funeral. After graduation, Trudeau worked as a teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia. Before retiring in 2003, he completed a one-year engineering program at the Ecole Polytechnic in Montreal. Justin Trudeau began his postgraduate degree in environmental geography at McGill University in 2005, but dropped out a year later. He exploited his popularity in a TV miniseries called "The Great War".

Eight years after his father's death, Trudeau became involved in politics. In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to the House of Commons and appointed a critic of the Liberal Party's Department of Youth and Culture. The following year he served as a critic of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. In 2011, he became a critic of the Department of Secondary Education and the Department of Youth and Fancy Sports. In April 2013, Trudeau led the Liberal Party. In 2015, under his leadership, the Liberal Party formed a government with the highest number of seats in Canadian history, winning 36 of 174 seats.