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Canada

Justin Trudeau

In office

Prime Minister

Liberal Party of Canada

3,274 days in office

42nd Parliament of Canada
03 Dec 2015 - 11 Sep 2019

43rd Parliament of Canada
05 Dec 2019 - 15 Aug 2021

44th Parliament of Canada
22 Nov 2021 - Present

The Canadian federal election of 2021 (officially the 44th Canadian general election) took place on September 20, 2021, and elected members of the House of Commons to Canada’s 44th Parliament. The Liberal Party, led by outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, won 160 seats, forming a second consecutive minority government.

The Trudeau government had originally made 569 promises in its 2021 campaign platform and press releases. This number was reduced to 352 by an extensive, multi-coder process of sorting promises according to their degree of precision and importance to society. Unclear and less important promises were removed from the analysis.

For an analysis of the achievements of Justin Trudeau’s first government (2015-2019), see Birch and Pétry (2019), Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government. 353 promises and a mandate for change, published by Les Presses de l’Université Laval.

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Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)

Center for Public Policy Analysis (CAPP)

Leadership Chair in the Teaching of Digital Social Sciences (CLESSN)

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC)

Promise History

International Affairs and Defence

44th Parliament of Canada

1.01.011 - “We will end Canada’s combat mission in Iraq.”

A New Plan for a Strong Middle Class

Published: Dec 2015

“Canada’s CF-18 fighter jets stopped their bombing in Iraq and Syria on Monday, days before MPs started debating the value of the new military mission against the Islamic State. […] In accordance with Government of Canada direction, the Chief of the Defence Staff ordered the Canadian Armed Forces to cease airstrike operations in Iraq and Syria on February 15, 2016, Canadian Forces spokesman Capt. Kirk Sullivan confirmed late Wednesday.”

Canadian CF-18s ended bombing mission in Iraq and Syria on Monday, military confirms - National Post

Published: Feb 2016

“Over and over and over again, reporters challenged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference here Monday to explain his rationale for his campaign commitment to shut down Canada’s bombing missions against the Islamic terrorists known as ISIL or ISIS. And over and over and over again, Trudeau kept coming back to one simple reason. ‘We made a clear commitment in the (election) campaign to stop the bombing mission by Canadian jets and to replace it with a role for Canada that was still a serious military role but leaned more towards training of local troops to be able to bring the fight directly to ISIL (ISIS),” Trudeau said. “We have a mandate to do that.’”