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Facts About Justin Trudeau.

  • Justin Trudeau  full name is Justin Pierre James Trudeau.
  • On July 23, 1971, the Prime Minister’s office had announced that Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s wife of four months, the former Margaret Sinclair,was pregnant and due in December.
  • Justin Trudeau was  born in  December 25, 1971.
  •   Justin Trudeau  was Born in Ottawa . He was born on Christmas Day 1971 at 9:27 pm EST.
  •  He is the eldest son of Pierre Trudeau, and the first to be related to a previous holder of the post.
  • Trudeau is the second child in Canadian history to be born to a Prime Minister in office.
  •  On April 14, 1972, Trudeau’s father and mother hosted a gala at the National Arts Centre, at which visiting U.S. president Richard M. Nixon
  • His parents publicly announced their separation on May 27, 1977when Trudeau was five years old, with his father having custody.
  • Trudeau lived at 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, the official residence of Canada’s prime minister, from his birth until his father’s government was defeated in the federal election on May 22, 1979
  • His grandfather was businessman Charles-Émile Trudeauand Scottish-born James Sinclair, who served as Minister of Fisheries in the cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.
  • Trudeau is the 5th-great grandson of Major-General William Farquhar, a leader in the founding of modern Singapore.
  • Trudeau attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and graduated from McGill University in 1994 and the University of British Columbia in 1998.
  •  He became a lapsed Catholic at age 18, as he felt that much of his day-to-day life was not addressed by the formality and structure of the church.
  •  He gained a high public profile in October 2000, when he delivered a eulogy at his father’s state funeral.
  •  After graduating, he worked as a teacher in Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • He completed one year of an engineering program at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, from 2002 to 2003.
  • He completed one year of a master’s program in environmental geography at McGill University, from 2004 to 2005.
  •  He used his public profile to advocate for various causes and acted in the 2007 TV miniseries The Great War.
  • Trudeau is one of several children of former prime ministers who have become Canadian media personalities.
  • Trudeau and Grégoire became engaged in October 2004, and married on May 28, 2005, in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Montreal’s Sainte-Madeleine d’Outremont Church.
  • They have three children: Xavier James (born October 18, 2007), Ella-Grace Margaret (born February 5, 2009) and Hadrien Grégoire (born February 28, 2014).
  • In the 2008 federal election, he was elected to represent the riding of Papineau in the House of Commons.
  •  In 2009, he was appointed the Liberal Party’s critic for youth and multiculturalism, and the following year, became critic for citizenship and immigration.
  • In 2011, he was appointed as critic for secondary education and youth and amateur sport.
  • Trudeau won the leadership of the Liberal Party in April 2013 and went on to lead his party to victory in the 2015 federal election, moving the 3rd-placed Liberals from 36 seats to 184 seats, the largest-ever numerical increase by a party in a Canadian general election.
  • Justin Trudeau is a Canadian politician serving as the 23rd and current Prime Minister of Canada since 2015.
  •  Justin Trudeau is Leader of the Liberal Party since 2013.6.
  •  Trudeau is the second-youngest Canadian Prime Minister, after Joe Clark.
  • Trudeau has used his public status to promote various causes. He and his family started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine Campaign for winter sports safety in 2000, two years after his brother Michel Trudeau died in an avalanche during a ski trip.
  • Trudeau chaired the Katimavik youth program, a project started by longtime family friend Jacques Hébert, from 2002 to 2006.
  • Trudeau sparked controversy when it was revealed that he earned $1.3 million in public speaking fees from charities and school boards across Canada, $277,000 of which Trudeau received after becoming an MP.
  • Trudeau and the rest of the Cabinet were sworn in by Governor General David Johnston on November 4, 2015. He said that his first legislative priority was to lower taxes for middle-income Canadians and raise taxes for the top one per cent of income earners after parliament was reconvened on December 3, 2015.
  • In January 2017, Canada’s Ethics Commissioner, Mary Dawson, began an investigation into Trudeau for a vacation he and his family took to Aga Khan IV’s private island in the Bahamas.
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with his wife and three children, arrive in New Delhi on 17 February 2018.

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