Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne-Canada’s first openly gay head of a province-and Toronto Mayor John Tory marched alongside Trudeau. Trudeau also walked in the annual parade last year as head of the Liberal Party, then the opposition leader facing former president Stephen Harper’s conservative government. Toronto police have not released an official attendance count, but organisers had expected one million attendees. The city tightened security, but kept the enhanced measures discreet to maintain a festive spirit. And when Donald Trump was elected to the American presidency the following year, our prime minister was even floated briefly as the new leader of. The colourful procession observed a minute of silence to pay respect to the victims of the June 12 nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida that left 49 dead. The day after his victory, Mr Trudeau, never one for using an under-statement where a hubristic over-statement would do, told the world that On behalf of 35 million Canadians, we’re back. The youthful politician, whose popularity is soaring, donned a salmon-coloured, button-down shirt and white jeans, taking selfies and shaking hands with those lining the parade route. Thunderous applause greeted Trudeau as he paraded down a main Toronto artery yesterday, waving a Canadian maple-leaf flag bordered with a rainbow. Justin Trudeau has made history by marching with tens of thousands of people in Toronto’s Gay Pride parade, becoming the country’s first sitting Prime Minister to participate.