{"id":12227,"date":"2025-01-07T07:05:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12227"},"modified":"2025-01-07T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T18:05:29","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-justin-trudeau-as-canadian-prime-minister-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12227","title":{"rendered":"The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

After nearly 10 years at the country\u2019s helm, Canadian Prime Minister\u00a0Justin Trudeau<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0resigned as leader<\/a>\u00a0of the ruling Liberal Party.<\/p>\n

Trudeau\u2019s latest crisis<\/a>\u00a0has been sparked by the sudden resignation of his finance minister\u00a0Chrystia Freeland<\/a>, amid a dispute over how best to handle U.S. President-elect\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s threatened trade tariffs.<\/p>\n

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At a press conference on Monday<\/a>, Trudeau cited \u201cinternal battles\u201d within the Liberal Party that meant he \u201ccannot be the best option\u201d in the next election.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking outside his residence at Rideau Cottage, Trudeau said he had taken time over the holidays to \u201creflect\u201d with his family. \u201cThroughout the course of my career, any success I have personally achieved has been because of their support and with their encouragement,\u201d Trudeau said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I\u2019m sharing with you today.\u00a0I intend to resign as party leader\u00a0<\/a>as prime minister after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once the\u00a0poster-boy for liberal politics<\/a>, his popularity has waned and his approval rating has dipped below 30 percent several times this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After nearly 10 years at the country\u2019s helm, Canadian Prime Minister\u00a0Justin Trudeau\u00a0has\u00a0resigned as leader\u00a0of the ruling Liberal Party. Trudeau\u2019s latest crisis\u00a0has been sparked by the sudden resignation of his finance minister\u00a0Chrystia Freeland, amid a dispute over how best to handle U.S. President-elect\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s threatened trade tariffs. At a press conference on Monday, Trudeau cited \u201cinternal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12229,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12227\/revisions\/12229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}