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
Electoral history of Justin Trudeau losing the general election of 2011. Trudeau currently ranks fourteenth out of twenty-three prime ministers for time in office, being in office for . Trudeau is the eighth prime minister from Quebec, the others being Sir John Abbott, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Louis St. Laurent, Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. He is also the fifth francophone prime minister, the others being Laurier, St. Laurent, Pierre Trudeau, and Chretien. Trudeau was first elected to the House of Commons in 2008, at age 35. The Liberals were in opposition after the 2008 and 2011 general elections. Under Liberal leader