You understand not just the value, but the power, of community better than most. And that's why I trust you will be the 21st century's greatest generation. You know what is wrong with the world and how to fix it. Your job is not only to challenge people like me, but to bring us along.

Commencement address to the class of 2020 at Carleton University, which was broadcast nationally for all graduates commemorating their achievements remotely due to social distancing measures imposed amid the Covid-19 pandemic crisis (10 June 2020); Trudeau used the speech to draw parallels between the politically-engaged "Generation Z," coming of age during massive social upheaval and global paradigm shifts in the 21st century, and the "Greatest Generation" who had witnessed and endured major changes in society as a result of the Great Depression and World War II. (Video)