Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly backed up his pledge for more dialogue with the West, opening his on Thursday, November 21, 2019, meeting with Calgary's mayor up to the two members of his government now entrusted with being ambassadors to the region.

The prime minister unveiled his new cabinet of 37 people at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday. Jonathan Wilkinson is Canada's new environment and climate change minister.

Even before he swears in his new cabinet, Justin Trudeau is being urged to ask his new justice minister to move swiftly to make Canada's assisted-dying law less restrictive.

Capping a week of meetings with opposition leaders, Justin Trudeau met on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, with the Green party's Elizabeth May, who says she will vote against the Liberal government in confidence motions unless the prime minister commits to measures that lower Canada's carbon emissions sharply.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama made a point of highlighting his admiration for Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, saying the prime minister's approach to politics is close to his own.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is calling on the prime minister to open Parliament on Nov. 25, 2019.

Justin Trudeau says his new government has a lot of work to do to ensure it is governing for the entire country, but his MPs are warning the prime minister not to go too far to placate regions that spurned core Liberal policies and values.

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says the prime minister must help unify the country by ensuring the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is built so that western oil can get coastal access to overseas markets.

More than one-third of Canadians voted strategically in last week's federal election to stop another party from winning, a new poll suggests

"I've heard the critiques that we need to be doing more, and I agree with them," Trudeau said Wednesday. "I am impatient as well."

The leader of the Assembly of First Nations says the minority government elected on Monday, October 21, 2019, presents an opportunity to keep moving the needle on issues affecting Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

The United States government is suing California for signing an emissions-reduction agreement with Quebec, saying the deal amounts to foreign policy that the state had no right to conduct.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says there's nothing wrong with Canada — it's the electoral system that is broken and in need of repair.

Singh and May focused on reconciliation on election night, while Trudeau and Scheer were quiet.

The Liberals, a diminished version of the party that swept to power in 2015, will now need support from other parties to form a workable government.