Trudeau's final weeks strike balance between cementing his legacy and managing a crisis

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau works through what is likely to be his last week in office, he and his government appear to be moving to cement his political legacy. 

Trudeau and his ministers have been making significant announcements on infrastructure, social programs and reconciliation.

Trudeau has also made recent international trips to the United Kingdom and Ukraine to discuss and demonstrate Canada's ongoing support for Ukraine and future role in global security.

All this has come against a backdrop of leading the country through an economic, security and existential crisis instigated by the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Randy Besco, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, says that making announcements on your way out the door is common for outgoing prime ministers, as is tying up loose ends.

"One way to look at it is: they are trying to cement a legacy. Another way to look at it is: they might lose so they are trying to get a lot of stuff done. And that's also a pretty standard thing," he told CBC News.

Here are some of the major steps the Trudeau government has taken in recent weeks to shore up signature policy moves made over the last decade. 

Trudeau has repeatedly said that there's no relationship "more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous Peoples."

Over the last decade he's made significant, although not perfect, progress toward his promise to renew that relationship, and further reconciliation.

Those efforts saw Trudeau deliver apologies for the federal government's past child welfare and residential schools policies, as well as lift 147 long-term drinking advisories in Indigenous communities. 

In his final weeks in office, Trudeau and the Haida Nation reminded the country of that mission by signing an agreement recognizing Aboriginal title over the archipelago of Haida Gwaii off British Columbia's northern coast.

A week later, Trudeau announced that he'd struck a $270-million agreement to support jobs and conservation projects in the Qikiqtani region of Nunavut.

"When we invest to protect [and] safeguard biodiversity, we protect those who protect us, our environment and our livelihoods," Trudeau told reporters.

On Thursday, the government announced a settlement agreement for survivors of federally run Indian hospitals where claimants are eligible for up to $200,000.