Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday. “I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide competitive process,” Trudeau said. “Last night, I asked the President of the Liberal Party to begin that process. This country deserves a real choice in the next election. And it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles, I cannot be the best option in that election,” he added. WATCH: BREAKING: Justin Trudeau has officially resigned as Prime Minister of Canada. pic.twitter.com/xN1MoCkqyf — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 6, 2025 Trudeau resigned as prime minister and Liberal Party leader amid growing opposition to his leadership. “The fact is, despite best efforts to work through it, parliament has been paralyzed for months, after what has been the longest session of a minority parliament in Canadian history,” Trudeau said, according to CBS News. WATCH: Justin Trudeau to announce resignation today pic.twitter.com/mv8tgoUPZk — Karli Bonne’ (@KarluskaP) January 6, 2025 Per CBS News: Trudeau said Canada’s parliament will pause until a new leader has been chosen. It will resume in late March, which will allow for a Liberal Party leadership race. “This morning, I advised the governor general that we need a new session of parliament,” he said. “She has granted this request, and the House will now be prorogued until March 24.” Trudeau, a former high school teacher and son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, became prime minister in 2015 after his Liberal Party won a decisive parliamentary majority. The Liberal Party won two more successive elections in 2019 and 2021, but lost the popular vote, requiring him to form a minority government with a left-wing opposition party, leaving his party dependent on allies to pass legislation. In his press conference on Monday Trudeau called for a more unified political environment and suggested changes to Canada’s election process that would allow voters to look “for things they have in common instead of polarizing and dividing Canadians against each other.” He said failing to amend that process during his term is “one regret particularly” that he has leading up to the next election. Justin Trudeau has resigned. He framed himself as an honest, caring, and compassionate leader. He was not. He falsely smeared his critics as Nazis. He justified freezing bank accounts using faked intelligence. And he spread disinformation while demanding censorship. Let's dig in: pic.twitter.com/0wZKIGuHzi — Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) January 6, 2025 BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau officially resigns. pic.twitter.com/JlB49CysLP — BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) January 6, 2025 Fox News reports: Trudeau, who led the nation for nearly a decade, has been grappling for months with significant drops in his approval ratings over mounting frustration relating to issues like the soaring cost of living and rising inflation. Though there was no official path for his party to boot him from the top job, the now nearly-former prime minister faced either the threat of a Parliamentary vote of no confidence, or a lengthy fight to hold on to his position until the October 2025 elections – either option was expected to see a crushing end to Trudeau’s time in office. The long-time prime minister saw an increase in calls for his resignation, with at least seven Liberal Members of Parliament as well as from opposition party leaders calling on him to set aside, following the abrupt departure of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, who wrote a scathing letter of resignation, citing criticisms over his handling of certain economic policies as well as the threats levied by Trump. Freeland, once seen as Trudeau’s chief ally and who helped oversee the 2020 U.S.-Mexico-Canada deal during the last Trump administration, warned that how Canada responds to Trump’s November threat to slap a 25% tariff on Canadian imports “will define us for a generation, and perhaps longer.” “For the past number of weeks, you and I have found ourselves at odds about the best path forward for Canada,” she wrote. “Our country today faces a grave challenge.” WATCH: