Justin Trudeau was interviewed by Valerie Pringle on Canada Files last night. He said his father was a statesman and not a politician. I had to look it up.
"In most respects a statesman is the opposite of a politician. Politicians are thought of as people who will say or do anything to get elected or to gain power. A statesman is someone who does everything for the common good of the people he or she represents."
Pierre Trudeau's entry in Wikipedia says: a Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
I had forgotten that Trudeau had a fourth child, a daughter, in 1991. She wasn't much in the news from a celebrity point of view. I looked her up and found some interesting information.
“It’s known that Trudeau did, on at least one occasion, travel with his young daughter. It was on an outing in Niagara Falls in 1996 that a 5-year-old Sarah had a chance encounter with Jimmy Carter, the former president of the United States.”
"It was at her father’s funeral in September, 2000 that the public first caught a glimpse of Sarah Trudeau-Coyne. Upon entering the church, she nodded assurances to both [U.S. President Jimmy]Carter and Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who reached down to embrace her.She was nine years old at the time of the funeral. "
Since then? Not much in the news, sometimes an article on her low-profile life compared to her famous half-brother, Justin Trudeau. And not mentioned in the interview with Valarie Pringle and Justin Trudeau.
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