Justin Trudeau MP (born December 25, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the eldest son of the late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper. On October 14, 2008, he was elected Member of Parliament for the riding of Papineau.
Trudeau and his younger brother, Alexandre (Sacha), were both born on December 25. Pierre and Margaret Trudeau separated in 1977, when Justin was 6 years old. Pierre retired as Prim...
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Justin Trudeau MP (born December 25, 1971 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is the eldest son of the late former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair Trudeau Kemper. On October 14, 2008, he was elected Member of Parliament for the riding of Papineau.
Trudeau and his younger brother, Alexandre (Sacha), were both born on December 25. Pierre and Margaret Trudeau separated in 1977, when Justin was 6 years old. Pierre retired as Prime Minister in 1984. Of his mother and father's divorce, Trudeau told an interviewer in September 2008, “I realized that my father had two priorities: this country and his children. His wife didn’t really fit into that the way I know she would have wanted.”
Justin Trudeau was only the second child in Canadian history to be born during a father's term as Prime Minister; he was preceded by John A. Macdonald's youngest daughter Margaret Mary Macdonald. Younger brothers Sacha and Michel (1975–1998) were the third and fourth.
Pierre Trudeau raised...
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