Time names Trudeau as one of the world’s 100 most-influential people

Canada’s PM is among figures who “broke the rules, broke the record, broke the silence, broke the boundaries to reveal what we’re capable of,” sums up the news magazine’s managing editor.

Thestar.com
April 21, 2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2016.

The annual list of leaders, artists, titans, pioneers and so-called icons includes such notable names as Pope Francis, Nicki Minaj and Caitlyn Jenner.

Trudeau is among the 32 people featured in the leader category and is named alongside U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, Christine Lagarde of the International Monetary Fund, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and even North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In a write-up for Time by Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels - himself a Canadian - Trudeau is described as talented and disciplined.

“In many ways Canada is no longer the country I grew up in, but when I hear Justin Trudeau talk, it sounds like my Canada again. Bold, clear as a bell and progressive,” writes Michaels, adding that he believes Trudeau will be a force for good.

Explaining how Time picks its influencers, managing editor Nancy Gibbs writes that each embodies “a breakthrough: they broke the rules, broke the record, broke the silence, broke the boundaries to reveal what we’re capable of. They are seekers, with a fearless willingness to be surprised by what they find.”

The issue is being released with six different covers featuring Minaj, Lagarde, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, actress Priyanka Chopra, philanthropists Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, and Pulitzer Prize-winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the Broadway hit Alexander Hamilton.