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- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced plans to resign as leader of his Liberal Party – and effectively, as prime minister – after nine years in office.
- Trudeau has suspended parliament until late March and said he would stay on until the party could appoint his replacement.
- The embattled leader has faced growing calls to step aside since the December resignation of one of his closest cabinet allies, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
- The Liberals will select a new leader at a time when polls show the party trailing far behind the opposition Conservative Party ahead of an election that must be held by late October.
- Trudeau’s political allies have thanked him for his public service while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre slammed the Liberals as having helped Trudeau “break the country”.