Justin Trudeau’s life in politics – in pictures

The Canadian PM has announced his resignation amid rising discontent over his leadership, and after the abrupt departure of his finance minister signalled growing turmoil within his government. Trudeau said on Monday that ‘internal battles’ meant he ‘cannot be the best option’ in the next election

Main image: Trudeau waving to supporters at a rally in Ottawa in October 2015. Photograph: Patrick Doyle/Reuters

  • The UK prime minister, Keir Starmer (left) and Justin Trudeau during a bilateral meeting at the G20 summit on 18 November 2024
    Starmer and Trudeau raise toasts to each other while sitting at a table with drinks

  • Trudeau greeting supporters as he celebrated his election victory in Montreal on 20 September 2021. The Liberal party leader retained his position as Canadian prime minister but was forced to form a minority government
    Trudeau, wearing a face mask, gives a thumbs-up gesture

  • Speaking to Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation during a ceremony to sign the Miyo Pimatisowin Act coordination agreement in Cowessess, Sask on 6 July 2021
    Trudeau puts his hand on the upper arm of a man wearing a First Nations headdress

  • Canada’s then finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, receiving a fist bump from Trudeau after unveiling her first fiscal update, the fall economic statement 2020, in the House of Commons in Ottawa on 30 November 2020
    Trudeau reaches across to fist bump Freeland’s elbow in the Commons, which is sparsely attended due to Covid social distancing

  • Trudeau (second left) taking a knee during a Black Lives Matter protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on 5 June 2020
    Trudeau kneels alongside three other people, all wearing face masks. Other people are stood around them, mostly with their backs to the group

  • Attending a Nato summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, UK, with the then British prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the then US president, Donald Trump, on 4 December 2019
    Trudeau stands talking to Trump, as Johnson walks towards them among a crowd of people. Photographers are in the foreground taking pictures of them

  • Trump and Trudeau during the Nato summit in London
    A smiling Trudeau looks at Trump as the US president speaks

  • Trudeau greeting supporters as he celebrated his election victory in Montreal on 21 October 2019
    A delighted-looking Trudeau waves to supporters, many of whom are holding up mobile phones to take pictures

  • Queen Elizabeth II greeting Trudeau in a receiving line for the queen’s dinner for the Commonwealth heads of government meeting at Buckingham Palace, London, on 19 April 2018
    Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she looks up at Trudeau, whose head is slightly bowed as he speaks

  • With his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, his sons Xavier and Hadrien, and his daughter, Ella-Grace, watching a TV broadcast of the initial results from the federal election in Montreal on 21 October 2019
    The Trudeaus sit on sofas watching TV

  • Trudeau taking part in a rally as he campaigned for the upcoming election in Vancouver on 20 October 2019
    View looking down on Trudeau as he waves from the centre of a crowd of people

  • Seeking a high five during an election campaign visit to Cambridge, Ontario, on 14 October 2019
    Trudeau holds up his hand for a high five as a young boy, held by a man, faces him

  • Balancing a young girl during a campaign stop alongside the local Liberal candidate Andrea Kaiser on 23 September 2019 in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Just a week after he launched his re-election campaign, Trudeau was caught in a scandal after a photo emerged showing him wearing brownface makeup to an Arabian Nights party at the private school where he was teaching in 2001
    Trudeau is open-mouthed as he looks up at a young girl who is standing on his hand

  • Trudeau launching his election campaign at a rally in Vancouver on 11 September 2019. Here he is introducing the Vancouver Kingsway candidate Tamara Taggart
    Trudeau raises Taggart’s arm and points towards her as she smiles alongside, in front of a crowd of supporters

  • Sharing a joke with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, during a bilateral meeting in Biarritz, south-west France, on the third day of the annual G7 summit on 26 August 2019
    Trudeau looks towards the camera and smiles as he grips the lower right arm of Macron, who is also smiling and looking towards him

  • The then US first lady, Melania Trump, greeting Trudeau next to Donald Trump during the family photo with invited guests at the G7 summit in Biarritz
    Melania Trump leans towards Trudeau to kiss him

  • Donald Trump welcoming Trudeau on the South Lawn of the White House before a meeting about the Nafta trade agreement in Washington on 11 October 2017
    Trump, with pursed lips, points a finger at Trudeau, who is standing alongside looking away from Trump

  • Posing for a selfie during Canada Day celebrations as the country marked its 150th anniversary since confederation on 1 July 2017
    A boy in a Canada hat with red antlers, and a waterproof poncho, holds up his phone as Trudeau smiles alongside

  • Trudeau and his wife, Sophie, laughing during closing remarks after the then US president, Barack Obama, addressed parliament in Ottawa on 29 June 2016
    Sophie Grégoire Trudeau laughs and claps her hands, as her husband and Obama smile sitting either side of her

  • Waving to supporters at a rally in Ottawa on 20 October 2015 after trouncing his Conservative rivals in the federal election
    Trudeau waves to supporters

  • Justin Trudeau blends the peacock pose with political peacocking, 2016
    Justin Trudeau blends the peacock pose with political peacocking.

  • Trudeau marching in the annual Vancouver Pride parade on 2 August 2015
    Trudeau reaches out to grasp the hands of onlookers during the parade
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