加拿大总理贾斯廷·特鲁多宣布，一旦新的政党领袖确定，他打算辞去自由党领袖和总理职务。
“在该党通过一个强大的全国性竞争过程选出下一任领导人后，我打算辞去党首和总理的职务，”他周一在渥太华的里多别墅说。
特鲁多将担任总理至3月24日。他将被一位新的自由党领袖取代。
加拿大议会本应于1月27日开始2025年的新一届会议，但特鲁多周一表示，他要求总督延长议会会期，直到3月24日才开始新一届会议。
特鲁多在讲话中用英语和法语说，并说他在前一天晚上与他的孩子分享了这个消息。
“我是一名战士。我身体里的每一根骨头都告诉我要战斗，因为我深深地关心加拿大人。我深深关心这个国家，我将永远以加拿大人的最大利益为动力，”总理说。
特鲁多说，他相信他的辞职将“降温”，并允许议会重置，并“为加拿大人”重新工作。
特鲁多在宣布后回答记者提问时说:“我认为，议会需要重置，需要冷静下来，需要为加拿大人工作。”
“把我从为该党参加下一次选举的领导人位置上撤下来，应该会减少我们现在的两极分化，”他说。
反对党保守党领袖皮埃尔·波伊列夫尔(Pierre Poilievre)周一对特鲁多的辞职做出回应，称这是一场“政治演习”，并将其视为一场“骗局”。
“什么都没有改变，”Poilievre在x上发布的视频声明中说。
Poilievre认为，整个自由党对特鲁多任期内做出的一系列糟糕决定负有同等责任，强调这些问题超出了即将离任的总理。Poilievre正在竞选首相。
一个月前，加拿大副总理兼财政部长克里斯蒂娅·弗里兰(Chrystia Freeland)从特鲁多内阁辞职，这是特鲁多政府明显动荡的迹象。53岁的特鲁多是自由党领袖，2015年开始担任加拿大第23任总理。
在一封致总理的宣布辞职的信中，弗里兰提到了她与特鲁多在如何处理当选总统唐纳德·特朗普的问题上的分歧关税威胁.
“我们的国家今天面临着严峻的挑战，”弗里兰在信中写道在社交媒体上分享。“即将上任的美国政府正在推行积极的经济民族主义政策，包括威胁征收25%的关税。”
“我们需要极其认真地对待这一威胁，”她继续说道，她的行动包括需要加拿大反击和抵制“昂贵的政治花招”和“建立一个真正的加拿大团队回应”
根据美国农业部的数据，特朗普提议对来自加拿大(美国第三大农产品供应国)以及中国和墨西哥的进口商品征收新关税。
特鲁多旅客多的上个月，特朗普在佛罗里达州的私人俱乐部Mar-a-Lago会见了当选总统。特鲁多当时告诉记者，他与特朗普的谈话“非常棒”，但没有回应任何额外的问题。
特朗普周一表示，特鲁多辞职，部分原因是关税。
“许多加拿大人喜欢成为第51个州。美国不能再承受加拿大维持运转所需的巨额贸易赤字和补贴。贾斯廷·特鲁多知道这一点，于是辞职了，”川普在社交媒体上写道。
白宫周一表示，总统乔·拜登对“坚定的朋友”特鲁多的合作“感激不尽”。
“特鲁多总理一直是美国坚定的朋友。白宫新闻秘书卡琳·让·皮埃尔在空军一号上对记者说:“在他领导加拿大政府的十年里，我们作为亲密的盟友、邻国和七国集团的成员，在我们两国和世界面临的所有问题上密切合作。”。“总统感谢总理在所有这些问题上的合作，感谢他致力于保护北美免受21世纪地缘政治威胁的承诺，以及我们为保持北美作为世界上最具经济竞争力地区的地位而共同做的工作。”
让-皮埃尔补充说:“作为民主伙伴，我们与总理和加拿大人民站在一起，因为他们选择了新的自由党领导人并组织了新政府。”
弗里兰在上个月的信中说，特鲁多告诉她，他不再希望她担任财政部长，并向她提供了内阁的另一个职位。
“经过深思熟虑，我得出结论，唯一诚实和可行的途径是我从内阁辞职，”她在信中说，信中指出，她期待继续作为自由派议员与同事合作，并计划在下次联邦选举中再次竞选多伦多的席位。
政府间事务部长多米尼克·勒布朗(Dominic LeBlanc)现在也将在弗里兰卸任后担任新的财政部长。
她辞职之际，特鲁多的住房部长肖恩·弗雷泽也宣布，由于个人原因，他将不会寻求连任，他说他想花更多的时间与家人在一起。
下一次联邦选举必须在10月20日举行。
据报道，特鲁多政党的支持率几个月来一直在稳步下降，自由党目前的支持率处于多年来的最低水平加拿大广播公司新闻。据加拿大广播公司报道，在联邦选举前，保守党领先自由党21个百分点。
特鲁多的父亲、前总理皮埃尔·艾略特·特鲁多在1968年至1979年和1980年至1984年担任加拿大总理，在下届选举前退出政坛。
Justin Trudeau says he'll resign as prime minister of Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced he intends to resign as Liberal Party leader and prime minister once a new party leader is determined.
"I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process," he said Monday from Rideau Cottage in Ottawa.
Trudeau will serve as prime minister until March 24. He will then be replaced by a new Liberal Party leader.
The Canadian Parliament was supposed to begin its new session of 2025 on Jan. 27, but Trudeau said Monday he asked the governor general to extend and not start a new session of Parliament until March 24.
Trudeau spoke in both English and French during his remarks, and said he shared the news with his children the night prior.
"I'm a fighter. Every bone in my body has always told me to fight because I care deeply about Canadians. I care deeply about this country, and I will always be motivated by what is in the best interest of Canadians," the prime minister said.
Trudeau said he believes his resignation will "bring the temperature down" and allow Parliament to reset and get back to work "for Canadians."
"Parliament needs a reset, I think, needs to calm down a bit and needs to get to work for Canadians," Trudeau said when answering reporters' questions following his announcement.
"Removing me as the leader who will fight the next election for the party should decrease the polarization that we have right now," he said.
Pierre Poilievre, leader of the opposition Conservative Party, responded to Trudeau's resignation on Monday calling it a "political maneuver" and dismissing it as a "trick."
"Nothing has changed," Poilievre said in a video statement posted on X.
Poilievre argued the entire Liberal Party is equally accountable for the series of poor decisions made during Trudeau's tenure, emphasizing that the issues extend beyond the outgoing prime minister. Poilievre is running to be prime minister.
The development comes a month after Canada's deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned from Trudeau's Cabinet, a sign of apparent turmoil in his government. Trudeau, 53, the leader of the Liberal Party, began serving as the 23rd prime minister of Canada in 2015.
In a letter to the prime minister announcing her resignation, Freeland cited her differences with Trudeau over how to deal with President-elect Donald Trump'stariff threat.
"Our country today faces a grave challenge," Freeland wrote in the letter, which sheshared on social media. "The incoming administration in the United States is pursuing a policy of aggressive economic nationalism, including a threat of 25 percent tariffs."
"We need to take that threat extremely seriously," she continued, with actions that included the need for Canada to push back and resist "costly political gimmicks" and "building a true Team Canada response."
Trump has proposed new tariffs on imports from Canada -- the United States' third largest supplier of agricultural products, according to the Department of Agriculture -- as well as China and Mexico.
Trudeautraveledto Mar-a-Lago, Trump's private club in Florida, last month to meet with the president-elect. Trudeau told reporters at the time that his conversation with Trump was "excellent" but did not respond to any additional questions.
Trump on Monday said Trudeau resigned, in part, because of the tariffs.
"Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State. The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned," Trump wrote on social media.
The White House on Monday said President Joe Biden is "grateful" for "stalwart friend" Trudeau's partnership.
"Prime Minister Trudeau has been a stalwart friend of the United States. During his decade leading the Canadian government, we have worked closely together on the full range of issues facing our countries and the world as close allies, neighbors and as members of the G7," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. "The president is grateful for the prime minister's partnership on all of that and for his commitment to defending North America from the geopolitical threats of the 21st century and the work we have done together to sustain North America's status as the world's most economically competitive region."
"As fellow democracies, we stand with the prime minister and the Canadian people as they select a new Liberal Party leader and organize a new government," Jean-Pierre added.
In her letter last month, Freeland said Trudeau told her he no longer wanted her to serve as finance minister and offered her another position in the Cabinet.
"Upon reflection, I have concluded that the only honest and viable path is for me to resign from the Cabinet," she said in the letter, which noted that she looks forward to continuing to work with her colleagues as a Liberal member of Parliament and plans to run again for her seat in Toronto in the next federal election.
Dominic LeBlanc, the minister of intergovernmental affairs, will now also serve as the new finance minister after Freeland stepped down from the role.
Her resignation comes as Trudeau's housing minister, Sean Fraser, also announced he will not seek reelection for personal reasons, saying he wants to spend more time with his family.
The next federal election must be held by Oct. 20.
Support for Trudeau's party has declined steadily for months, with the Liberals currently at their lowest level of support in years, according toCBC News. The Conservative Party holds a 21-point lead over the Liberals leading up to the federal election, according to CBC News.
Trudeau's father, former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, served as the prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984, before retiring from politics before the next election.
