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Justin Trudeau

lines on the record: 57
first: 2018-02-08
most recent: 2018-02-08
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, I think we all, I mean, you've seen the YouTube videos titled Daddy's Home that is just a montage of kids, of daddy coming home from war or from a construction site and the kids reacting. There's something universal about that and that's certainly something I felt and I lived. But at the same time, the The effort and the deliberate choice I make, but mostly Sophie, who's an incredible partner, makes to bring moments of magic into their kids, into our kids' lives is really, really important. In the future, when they look back on their childhood, I want those moments to be that they remember most, not when they went to the White House, but instead when we had a picnic in the woods on a snowy day or something like that that they remember.”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew that it would bring challenges and difficulties for my kids growing up, but I also knew better than most how extraordinarily positive the experiences and the life it can be if Parents are focused on giving the right kind of upbringing to the kids, and I certainly got that. I had parents who put our well-being as kids at the front of everything and tried to raise us normal in a very unnormal situation. And the conversation I had with Sophie was about going into politics, about starting a family, was if we do it, we have to stay grounded, we have to stay right, we have to give them as much as possible.”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By the time, first of all, growing up in the 70s and early 80s, there wasn't a social media to impact. And I didn't read the newspapers, so there wasn't a lot of playing out in front of the whole country. It wasn't until years later that I heard about and saw sort of stories of my parents' breakup. But at the same time, when I lost my little brother, my youngest brother, when he was 23, we had an entire country feeling like they had lost someone that they cared for. And when my dad died a couple years later, I got to deal with the death of my father by being supported and shouldered by an entire country who were also feeling the loss. So yes, there is a level of exposure or negativity that can come with that, but there is also a tremendous amount of support and positive love and energy. Coming from Canadians that was hugely helpful.”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But in that sense my story is particular because I was the son of the Prime Minister, but All too common. There's too many of us who grew up in difficult situations. And it's not certainly to complain about it because overall I was incredibly lucky. But you also have experiences that shape you in the negative as”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you can choose to look at that as particular the opportunities and the challenge that surrounded me were different from those of my friends, but the things that actually were real for me, the difficulty in my parents' marriage later on losing my little brother. The kinds of challenges we faced of having a dad who worked too much, a mom who wasn't always happy, or as we later found out, was struggling with mental illness. These things are universal and they matter in people's lives more than what the job is or even what the income level is. They're formative.”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Better in a certain sense, but the other thing that I developed over the course of my life was a certain understanding that when people come to me or meet me for the first time, they often come with preconceived notions depending on whether they like my father or disliked my father. And my responsibility was to sort of get them away from those preconceived notions, but also to be tough enough to be able to not consider that Someone else can define me and how they think. If they hated me for reasons unrelated to who I am, I couldn't let that affect me. But if they loved me for reasons unrelated to who I actually was, I couldn't let that overly affect me either.”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I was lucky in that we went to an elementary school that was a public school, and I had lots of friends who knew me from before they had any awareness of what a prime minister was. I mean, when you start in kindergarten, they judge you as who you are, not what kind of car you show up in. And fortunately for the first years of my schooling, I was surrounded by people for whom it was just a fact of life that this was particular about Justin, but they didn't deal with me differently than or much differently than anyone else would. There was no awareness of a real difference there. That made it”
2018-02-08 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 215 - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source