This is CBS. I On the World. I'm John Batchel with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, my colleague and co-host.

And we're very welcoming to Charles Burton of the synopsis because Charles is our guide on Canada's polity.

It's critical now because of remarks made by the sitting Prime Minister,

Justin Trudeau, who has been prime minister since 2015, I believe. Very popular, very well turned out,

but his time in office has been troubled these last months and years by a declining economy following the pandemic. Personal problems,

we can presume. He no longer spends time with his family and wife. He's alienated from them in some

fashion. And his announcement of his intention to resign, not a surprise, but then again it was grave

the way he presented himself to the Canadian people

and to the United States. There have also been remarks that are odd between the President

elect, Mr. Trump, and Justin Trudeau, the serving Prime Minister, about Canada's future status.

But we're going to stay now to just the timeline we can expect

after the Prime Minister's intention to resign.

Charles, a very good day to you.

Please help me understand what happens next

and where the new election is.

Good day to you. Good day. Well,

you know, day before yesterday, the Prime Minister of Canada gave a speech from the front porch

of his residence to say that he intended to resign as Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party

when the Liberal Party chooses a new leader.

And moreover that that morning, he had got permission from the Governor General, the

representative of the Canadian head of state, who was King Charles III, to paroch, in other words, suspend Parliament until

March 24th, which means that Parliament will not be sitting until March 24th, and therefore

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