{"id":43598,"date":"2015-10-19T23:57:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T03:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43598"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:58:32","slug":"canadas-prime-minister-elect-justin-trudeau-follows-in-the-footsteps-of-his-father-pierre-elliott-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43598","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister Elect Justin Trudeau Follows in the Footsteps of his Father  Pierre Elliott Trudeau."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By IAN AUSTENOCT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Justin Trudeau <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cI knew that the challenge I would be facing all my life would be having people think that I expected anything to be handed to me in politics because of my last name.\u201d JUSTIN TRUDEAU<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JT.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/JT-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"JT\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022Born in Ottawa on Dec. 25, 1971 to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada\u2019s prime minister at the time, and the former Margaret Sinclair.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Raised in Ottawa and Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Married Sophie Gr\u00e9goire, a childhood friend and former television host. The couple has three young children.<\/p>\n<p>While Mr. Trudeau is the product of two political families \u2014 his maternal grandfather, James Sinclair, was a cabinet minister \u2014 Mr. Trudeau came late to politics. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After a childhood spent in the public gaze, Mr. Trudeau disappeared from view for several years, studying English and French literature at McGill University in Montreal and working as a snowboard instructor and nightclub bouncer before becoming a high school teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trudeau returned to the public\u2019s attention 1998 after his brother Michel was killed in an avalanche. <\/p>\n<p>He delivered the eulogy at his father\u2019s funeral, which was broadcast live, two years later.<\/p>\n<p>    His political career started in 2007, when he began a successful campaign for Parliament in a Montreal electoral district that did not have a recent history of backing the Liberal Party. <\/p>\n<p>In April 2013 he became the Liberal leader, 45 years and one week after his father had won the post. <\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s financial fortunes have improved substantially since then, and Mr. Trudeau recruited several high-profile candidates for this year\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Tall and athletic, Mr. Trudeau boxes once or twice a week.<\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton43598\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D43598&amp;text=Canada%26%238217%3Bs%20Prime%20Minister%20Elect%20Justin%20Trudeau%20Follows%20in%20the%20Footsteps%20of%20his%20Father%20%20Pierre%20Elliott%20Trudeau.&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IAN AUSTENOCT Justin Trudeau \u201cI knew that the challenge I would be facing all my life would be having people think that I expected anything to be handed to me in politics because of my last name.\u201d JUSTIN TRUDEAU \u2022Born in Ottawa on Dec. 25, 1971 to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada\u2019s prime minister at &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=43598\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister Elect Justin Trudeau Follows in the Footsteps of his Father  Pierre Elliott Trudeau.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43610,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43598\/revisions\/43610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}