Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MPis a Canadian politician who is the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada, and the leader of the Liberal Party. The second-youngest Canadian prime minister after Joe Clark, he is also, as the eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, the first child of a previous prime minister to hold the post...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth25 December 1971
CityOttawa, Canada
CountryCanada
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I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world.
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The Liberal party has always worked with multiple parties in the House to make sure we're being governed in the best interest of Canadians.
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Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.
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The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.
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I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.
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I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
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I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.
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Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.
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Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
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People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.
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People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.
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People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
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Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.
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I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.