He was the Liberal Party's Official Opposition critic for youth and multiculturalism in 2009, and the following year he became critic for citizenship and immigration. In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to represent the riding of Papineau in the House of Commons. In 2006, he was appointed as chair of the Liberal Party's Task Force on Youth Renewal. He was chair for the youth charity Katimavik and director of the not-for-profit Canadian Avalanche Association. After graduating he taught at the secondary school level in Vancouver, before relocating back to Montreal in 2002 to further his studies. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark he is also the first to be the child or other relative of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.īorn in Ottawa, Trudeau attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, graduated from McGill University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature, then in 1998 acquired a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP ( / ˈ t r uː d oʊ, t r uː ˈ d oʊ/ French: ( listen), born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.