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====Justin Trudeau====
{{Main|Premiership of Justin Trudeau}}
[[File:Prime Minister Trudeau's message on Christmas 2023 (0m29s) (cropped).jpg|right|165px|thumb|[[Justin Trudeau]], the 23rd prime minister of Canada (2015–2025)]]
On April 14, 2013, [[Justin Trudeau]], son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was [[2013 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|elected leader]] of the Liberal Party on the first ballot, winning 80% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news |title = Justin Trudeau sweeps Liberal leadership with 80% support |url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-to-face-off-against-harper-in-question-period-today-1.1317124 |access-date = April 15, 2013 |publisher = Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |date = April 14, 2013 |archive-date = September 29, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130929153612/http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-to-face-off-against-harper-in-question-period-today-1.1317124 |url-status = live }}</ref> Following his win, support for the Liberal Party increased considerably, and the party moved into first place in public opinion polls.<ref>{{cite news |last = Berthiaume |first = Lee |title = Tory attack ads may be backfiring in favour of Trudeau's Liberals as support rises, new poll shows |url = http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/07/tory-attack-ads-may-be-backfiring-in-favour-of-trudeaus-liberals-as-support-rises-new-poll-shows/ |access-date = June 7, 2013 |newspaper = National Post |date = May 7, 2013 |archive-date = September 13, 2024 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240913225306/https://nationalpost.com/category/news/ |url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last = Visser |first = Josh |title = Trudeau's Liberals hit historic highs as senate scandal has 'drastic effect' on Tories: poll |url = http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/23/trudeaus-liberals-hit-historic-highs-as-senate-scandal-has-drastic-effect-on-tories-poll/ |access-date = June 7, 2013 |newspaper = National Post |date = May 23, 2013 |archive-date = June 7, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130607130721/http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/23/trudeaus-liberals-hit-historic-highs-as-senate-scandal-has-drastic-effect-on-tories-poll/ |url-status = live }}</ref> In response, the Conservatives ran a series of ads attempting to "[paint] him as a silly dilettante unfit for public office" and the surge levelled off in the following year.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Warnica |first1=Richard |date=October 23, 2015 |title=The Liberal Resurrection: How a Liberal 'lightweight' faced with the longest election campaign in history beat down a Tory majority |url=http://news.nationalpost.com/features/the-liberal-resurrection |access-date=October 25, 2015 |work=National Post |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130131312/https://nationalpost.com/category/news/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2014, Trudeau removed all Liberal senators from the Liberal Party caucus. In announcing this, Trudeau said the purpose of the unelected upper chamber is to act as a check on the power of the prime minister, but the party structure interferes with that purpose.<ref name="LibSenate" /> Following this move, Liberal senators chose to keep the designation "Liberal" and sit together as a caucus, albeit not one supported by the Liberal Party of Canada. This independent group continued to refer to itself in publications as the [[Senate Liberal Caucus]] until 2019.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Crawford|first1=Allison|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-liberals-caucus-speaker-1.3347265|title=Senate Liberals unsure how to work with Trudeau government|access-date=January 1, 2016|publisher=CBC News|date=December 3, 2015|archive-date=September 13, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913225350/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-liberals-caucus-speaker-1.3347265|url-status=live}}</ref>

By the time the [[2015 Canadian federal election|2015 federal election]] was called, the Liberals had fallen back to third place. Trudeau and his advisors mounted a campaign based on economic stimulus in the hopes of regaining the mantle of being the party that best represented change from the New Democrats.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Raj|first1=Althia|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/25/justin-trudeau_n_8382304.html|title=Justin Trudeau's Liberals: 'We Had A Plan And We Stuck To It.' And They Won|access-date = October 31, 2015 |work = Huffington Post|date = October 25, 2015}}</ref> The campaign was successful, and the Liberals won the election in a dramatic fashion: with 39.5 per cent of the popular vote and 184 seats, it was the first time a party had won a parliamentary majority after placing third in a previous general election.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34578213|title = Canada election: Liberals sweep to power|access-date = October 20, 2015|work = BBC News|date = October 20, 2015|archive-date = October 20, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151020035211/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34578213|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/11941852/Canada-election-Liberals-poised-to-win-sweeping-victory-over-Conservatives.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/11941852/Canada-election-Liberals-poised-to-win-sweeping-victory-over-Conservatives.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title = Canada election: Liberals win sweeping victory over Conservatives|access-date = October 20, 2015 |newspaper = The Daily Telegraph|date = October 20, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=CBC News|date=October 19, 2015|access-date=October 20, 2015|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-results-federal-election-2015-1.3278830|title=Stunning Liberal gains in Quebec as Trudeau wins majority government|archive-date=October 20, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020024320/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-results-federal-election-2015-1.3278830|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Chantal Hébert]] deemed the result "a Liberal comeback that is headed straight for the history books",<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/10/20/liberal-comeback-headed-for-history-books-hbert.html|title = Liberal comeback headed for history books|access-date = October 25, 2015|work = Toronto Star|date = October 20, 2015|archive-date = October 24, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151024000551/http://www.thestar.com/news/federal-election/2015/10/20/liberal-comeback-headed-for-history-books-hbert.html|url-status = live}}</ref> while [[Bloomberg News|Bloomberg]]'s Josh Wingrove and Theophilos Argitis similarly described it as "capping the biggest political comeback in the country’s history."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Argitis |first1=Theophilos |last2=Wingrove |first2=Josh |publisher=Bloomberg News |date=October 19, 2015 |access-date=October 27, 2015 |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/trudeau-s-liberals-projected-to-win-canada-vote-networks-say |title=Trudeau's Liberals Oust Harper With Surprise Canada Majority |archive-date=October 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027135308/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/trudeau-s-liberals-projected-to-win-canada-vote-networks-say |url-status=live }}</ref> Spencer McKay, writing for the ''[[National Post]]'', suggested that "maybe we've witnessed a revival of Canada's 'natural governing party'".<ref>Spencer McKay, "The Great Liberal Comeback" [http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/spencer-mckay-the-great-liberal-comeback ''National Post'' Oct 29 2015]  {{Webarchive|url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20151119074616/http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/spencer-mckay-the-great-liberal-comeback|date=2015-11-19}}</ref>

At the [[2019 Canadian federal election|2019 federal election]], Trudeau's Liberal Party lost 20 seats in the House of Commons (lowering its total from 177 to 157) from the time of dissolution, they still won the most seats of any party—enough seats to allow Trudeau to form a minority government.<ref>{{cite web |last=Da Silva |first=Chantal |author-link=Chantal Da Silva |date=October 22, 2019 |title=Justin Trudeau wins minority government—what does this mean for America? |url=https://www.newsweek.com/justin-trudeau-canadian-election-minority-government-donald-trump-1466845 |website=Newsweek |access-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406174906/https://www.newsweek.com/justin-trudeau-canadian-election-minority-government-donald-trump-1466845 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Trudeau says no plans to form a coalition, will push ahead on Trans Mountain|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/6071193/justin-trudeau-minority-government-plan/|website=Global News|access-date=March 23, 2022|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406173403/https://globalnews.ca/news/6071193/justin-trudeau-minority-government-plan/|url-status=live}}</ref> For the first time since 1979, the party that garnered the largest share of the national popular vote did not win the most seats; the Liberals under Trudeau had 33.1 per cent of the popular vote, while the Conservatives under [[Andrew Scheer]] had 34.4 per cent.<ref name="toronto">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-election-results-1.5330105|title=Ontario and Quebec keep Liberals in power and Conservatives out|publisher=cbc.ca|date=October 22, 2019|access-date=March 23, 2022|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406194923/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-election-results-1.5330105|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://election.ctvnews.ca/historic-opportunity-opposition-leaders-take-stock-after-liberal-minority-win-1.4649796|title='Historic opportunity': Opposition leaders take stock after Liberal minority win|first=Rachel|last=Aiello|date=October 22, 2019|website=Federal Election 2019|access-date=March 23, 2022|archive-date=July 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210731183032/https://election.ctvnews.ca/historic-opportunity-opposition-leaders-take-stock-after-liberal-minority-win-1.4649796|url-status=live}}</ref> It was also the first time a government took power with less than 35 per cent of the national popular vote since the Conservatives of [[John A. Macdonald]], in 1867, who had 34.8 per cent of the votes.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/canadian-federal-election-2019-liberals-justin-trudeau-win|title=All-time low share of popular vote is enough for Liberals to win power &#124; National Post|newspaper=National Post|date=October 22, 2019|last1=Brean|first1=Joseph|access-date=March 23, 2022|archive-date=July 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210706201852/https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/canadian-federal-election-2019-liberals-justin-trudeau-win|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the [[2021 Canadian federal election|2021 federal election]], Trudeau and the Liberals secured a third mandate and his second minority government after winning 160 seats. However, the Liberals again came in second in the national popular vote, behind the Conservatives.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-2021-election-night-highlights-1.6177106 |title=Federal election latest updates", CBC, September 20, 2021. |access-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-date=March 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303012643/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-2021-election-night-highlights-1.6177106 |url-status=live }}</ref> They received 32.6 per cent of the popular vote, the lowest percentage of the national popular vote for a governing party in Canadian history.<ref name="Hopper2">{{cite news|last=Hopper|first=Tristan|date=September 22, 2021|title=First Reading: The Least Popular Canadian Government Ever Elected|work=National Post|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2021/first-reading-the-least-popular-canadian-government-ever-elected}}</ref>

In March 2022, Trudeau's Liberal Party agreed to a [[confidence and supply]] deal with the [[New Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liberals, NDP agree to confidence deal seeing Trudeau government maintain power until 2025 |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberals-ndp-agree-to-confidence-deal-seeing-trudeau-government-maintain-power-until-2025-1.5829116 |website=[[CTV News]] |date=March 22, 2022 |access-date=March 23, 2022 |archive-date=March 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322132559/https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/liberals-ndp-agree-to-confidence-deal-seeing-trudeau-government-maintain-power-until-2025-1.5829116 |url-status=live }}</ref> In September 2024, [[Jagmeet Singh]] announced that he was ending the confidence-and-supply agreement, with NDP sources saying they had "achieved all they could from the agreement."<ref>{{cite web |last1=McKenna |first1=Kate |last2=Zimonjic |first2=Peter |title=How the NDP's deal with the Liberals died |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-liberal-confidence-and-supply-parliament-1.7316227 |publisher=CBC News |access-date=12 September 2024 |date=4 September 2024 |archive-date=September 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240912064558/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-liberal-confidence-and-supply-parliament-1.7316227 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Yousif |first1=Nadine |date=September 5, 2024 |title=Why Canadian politics just got more unpredictable |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3vpp1z91o |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240905235537/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y3vpp1z91o |archive-date=September 5, 2024 |access-date=September 6, 2024 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> Throughout the year, the Liberals have faced declining poll numbers and disappointing results in [[List of federal by-elections in Canada|by-elections]], including losses in [[safe seat]]s such as [[2024 Toronto—St. Paul's federal by-election|Toronto—St. Paul's]] in [[Toronto]] and [[2024 LaSalle—Émard—Verdun federal by-election|LaSalle—Émard—Verdun]] in [[Montreal]], and battleground seats such as [[2024 Cloverdale—Langley City federal by-election|Cloverdale—Langley City]] in [[Vancouver]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Major |first=Darren |date=September 10, 2024 |title=Upcoming federal byelections will put Singh and the NDP brand to the test - NDP looking to both hold a Winnipeg seat and pull another away from the Liberals in Montreal |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-byelections-test-singh-leadership-1.7317935 |website=CBC News |access-date=September 11, 2024 |archive-date=September 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240911151244/https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-byelections-test-singh-leadership-1.7317935 |url-status=live }}</ref> The months following these losses saw frequent media stories about internal frustration and discontent with Trudeau's leadership. This appeared to culminate in a caucus meeting where multiple members called on Trudeau to resign. Trudeau emerged from this meeting stating that the party remained "strong and united".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-23 |title=Trudeau says Liberals 'strong and united' despite caucus dissent |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-says-liberals-strong-and-united-despite-caucus-dissent-1.7083855 |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=CTVNews |language=en |archive-date=January 6, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106153742/https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-says-liberals-strong-and-united-despite-caucus-dissent-1.7083855 |url-status=live }}</ref> On January 6, 2025, Trudeau prorogued parliament and announced his intent to resign as both party leader and Prime Minister following a [[2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election|leadership election]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Stevis-Gridneff |first1=Matina |last2=Austen |first2=Ian |date=2025-01-06 |title=Canada's Trudeau Is Stepping Down as Party Leader and Prime Minister |url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/06/world/canada-trudeau |access-date=2025-01-06 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>