After graduating he taught French, humanities, math and drama at the secondary school level in Vancouver. Trudeau is the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history after Joe Clark he is also the first to be the child or other relative of a previous holder of the post, as the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau.īorn in Ottawa, Trudeau attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, graduated from McGill University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature, then in 1998 acquired a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia. Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP ( / ˈ t r uː d oʊ, t r uː ˈ d oʊ/ French: ( listen), born December 25, 1971), is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.