13/09/2020
Name : Justin Trudeau Justin Trudeau
Born :
December 25, 1971 (age 48)
Ottawa, Canada
TITLE / Office :
Prime Minister, Canada (2015-)
POLITICAL Affiliation :
Liberal Party of Canada
NOTABLE FAMILY MEMBERS :
Father Pierre Elliott Trudeau
(Four-term prime minister of Canada)
Early Life :
Justin Trudeau’s Christmas-night birth to Canada’s first couple was the opening act in a life lived largely in the public eye. When Trudeau was six years old, his parents divorced, and his mother, Margaret (29 years younger than her husband, daughter of Liberal MP James Sinclair, and target of rumours that she had had romances with rock stars and other celebrities), moved out. As a result, Trudeau and his two younger brothers were raised by a single father who also led his country for 15 years (1968–79; 1980–84). After studying at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, the same private French Jesuit school in Montreal that his father had attended, Trudeau earned a B.A. in English from McGill University (1994). He then worked as a snowboard instructor while earning a degree in education from the University of British Columbia (B.Ed., 1998). Thereafter he taught high-school French and elementary-school math in Vancouver. In 2000, at age 28, he delivered an eloquent, moving eulogy at his father’s funeral that thrust him again into the national spotlight.
After returning to Quebec in 2002, Trudeau began and then abandoned engineering studies at the University of Montreal. He also pursued but did not complete an M.A. in environmental geography at McGill. In the meantime, he worked at a Montreal radio station, for which he covered the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, had a role in the television miniseries The Great War (2007), and was an unpaid spokesman for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. Perhaps most significantly, he served as the chairman of the board of directors of Katimavik (2002–06), the national youth volunteer organization established by his father in 1977.