From Santa spy to boxer to Canada's Prime Minister: Meet Justin Trudeau

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Wed October 21, 2015

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Pierre Elliott Trudeau was busy heading Canada's Liberal Party and – between April 1968 and June 1979, then again from March 1980 to June 1984 – running the country as Prime Minister during much of Justin's childhood.

He worked long hours but, his son remembered, had "infinite" patience and carved out time for his children.

Justin Trudeau recalled one such example at the start of his 2000 eulogy to his father: When he was around 6 years old, accompanying his father on an official trip to the northernmost reaches of Canada, near the North Pole.

https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/20/americas/meet-justin-trudeau/index.html