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Canada

Justin Trudeau

In office

Prime Minister

Liberal Party of Canada

3,265 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The Trudeau government had originally made 569 promises in its 2021 campaign platform and press releases.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.

In partnership with

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

1.01.001 - “We will maintain current National Defence spending levels, including current planned increases.”

A New Plan for a Strong Middle Class

Published: Dec 2015

“Expenditures for the fiscal year 2015-2016 : 20,0B$”

Table 1: Departmental budgetary expenditures by Standard Object (Unaudited) for the Quarter Ended December 31, 2016 - National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces

Published: Dec 2016

“On page 203 of 2016-2017 Budget, the Chart 6.2 Funding For National Defence Large-Scale Capital Projects shows a decrease in National Defence capital project funding starting in 2016 (concomitantly with the current budget). It also shows that current funding levels will remain lower within the Trudeau governement term.”