Premiership of Justin Trudeau made by the body of Alan Kurdi on a beach of Turkey in September 2015, made a significant turnover during the 2015 campaign. Then candidate Trudeau made a plea that under his premiership, Canada would accept 25,000 refugees in Canada. Only one month after taking office, the first plane of refugees was landing at Pearson airport in Toronto. Prime minister Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne were there to welcome arriving refugees. Trudeau has also advocated and supported open border immigration that starkly contrasts President Trump, publicly announcing “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless
Justin Trudeau André Ouellet, a senior minister under his father, had been in Liberal hands for 53 years before falling to the Bloc Québécois in 2006. Trudeau faced off against Mary Deros, a Montreal city councillor and Basilio Giordano, the publisher of a local Italian-language newspaper for the Liberal nomination. On April 29, 2007, he easily won the party's nomination, picking up 690 votes to 350 for Deros and 220 for Giordano. Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an election for 14 October 2008, by which time Trudeau had been campaigning for a year in Papineau. On election day Trudeau narrowly defeated Bloc