Trudeau in Forwell Hall September 11

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Justin Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, will be giving a speech followed by a Q&A session on September 11 in Forwell Hall.

Liberal Party of Canada leader Justin Trudeau will be dropping by Forwell Hall at 1:30 p.m. on September 11 to speak to Fanshawe College students.

Trudeau, who will be in town for the day, will give a short speech followed by a Q&A session.

Trudeau won the leadership of the party in April 2013 following previous leader Michael Ignatieff’s resignation after the Liberals were reduced to third place in the 2011 election.

But the Liberal leader has so far remained rather quiet about his political positions.

Following the legalizing of marijuana in the states of Colorado and Washington, Trudeau said Canada had to put an end to the substance’s prohibition, which he says costs law enforcement $500 million a year.

More recently, he revealed a policy requiring that all new Liberal candidates be in line with the party’s pro-choice stance. New candidates will be required to vote pro-choice on any bills, he told reporters back in May. He said current Liberal MPs “will be respected to a certain extent in their choices,” but that the party will not reopen the debate on abortion.

He also expressed concern about the Parti Québécois’ proposed charter of values — which would’ve forbade public servants in Quebec from wearing religious garments — last year.

He told reporters he was concerned that Québécois were going to have to “choose between their freedom of religion and freedom of expression, freedom of conscience and their economic well-being and their acceptance in the workplace.”

Trudeau is the son of former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.