Canada is a progressive country, one where socialized medicine, abortion, gun control, and gay rights are not hot-button issues but questions settled long ago. Yet this is not an unalloyed progressivism.

By suspending Parliament and promising to resign, the prime minister bought the Liberals time. But Canada will now face Donald J. Trump with a lame duck in charge.

On January 6, 2025, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader as soon as the party is able to choose a new leader. In Canada’s parliamentary system, the leader of the party with the largest number of seats in the House of Commons becomes the prime minister.

The upcoming change in national leadership is thickening the cloud of uncertainty around the future for federal public servants.

The Canadian Prime Minister announced his resignation Monday, pending an internal party election to replace him

The "Trump factor" was a key element driving Trudeau's resignation, Chantal Da Silva said at NBC News. Incoming U.S. president Donald Trump has threatened to slap large tariffs on America's northern neighbor — and has frequently mused about making Canada America's "51st state.

According to data from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), around 1.3 million Indian students received study permits between 2015 and 2024.