And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

When you talk to people about who on the world stage, who among world leaders can drive

liberal democracies forward in an age in which they're really under siege from populist

challengers from illiberal forces, one of the names that comes up is Justin Trudeau, the

Prime Minister of Canada, the son of a historic Prime Minister.

He's making his own history, having brought his liberal party back from near irrelevance

to a remarkable victory in 2015, and he has charted a path on issues like gender equality,

the rights of indigenous peoples, climate change.

In the age of Trump, he is the progressive antithesis.

Justin Trudeau is a guest at the Institute of Politics this week to mark our fifth anniversary

and sat down to talk about his life, his career, and the state of the world.

This particular podcast will be divided into two parts.

I sat down alone with him for the first part of the conversation that had a lot to do with

his own journey.

And then we spoke in front of an audience about some of the big issues, NAFTA and others

that are on his plate today.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, I have all kinds of people on this podcast who have different

stories about their pathways to politics, but you literally were born into it, born into

it, and talk a little bit about what that was, like the only thing you ever knew for the

first 13 years of your life was that you were the son of the Prime Minister of Canada.

Well, I was lucky in that we went to an elementary school, it was a public school, and I had lots

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