After a decade at the head of Canada, Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, January 6, that he would resign as Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Overtaken by the conservatives in the polls and greatly weakened in his own camp, particularly since the election of Donald Trump to the White House, his departure seemed inevitable. Justin Trudeau will step down as prime minister once his party has chosen its future leader. A procedure which should take several weeks. While the next general elections are scheduled for the fall of 2025, the opposition parties are calling for them to be brought forward.
The crisis that had been brewing for many months accelerated in the fall of 2024. On September 4, the New Democratic Party, with which the government had a support agreement in the event of a motion of censure, in fact broke the agreement which linked them. The government managed, as best it could, to survive for the next three months. But on December 16, his deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland resigned, criticizing the government's tax choices.
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