I don't think it is out of left field. There had been rumors swirling around Europe for quite a few years that their marriage was on the rocks, apparently the paparazzi was very aware of Sophie's extended European "vacations" sans hubby and kids. We have extended family that said the Canadian prime ministers marriage was fodder for a long time.
For his family's sake, I hope he chooses not to step down for the next election. Milhouse is going to run with this, and will not hesitate to fight dirty.
Wouldn’t it be better for pp if Trudeau didn’t step down? I feel like there are a lot of cheap shots just waiting to be taken. It would be a good reason to let Freeland take over and maybe bring some of anti Trudeau crowd back to their senses; if that is possible…
I'm not sure I agree, cheap shots regarding the separation would likely land well with the voter base that was only ever going to vote blue, but it's not likely to win points in the moderate crowd. And those moderates are who the conservatives need to convince if they want to get into power.
If that's the case he should have agreed not to. I don't see him making it through another election with how much baggage he's got now after two terms.
I will predict either a conservative minority or ndp minority, no idea which way it will swing but I think both sides have had enough of the liberal "middle ground".
Well, not really. There had been talk of her spending a lot of time at Harrington Lake when the PM was not there. I suspect they were semi-separated before this announcement.
I heard rumors a few years ago that they were already separated.
Weird that they're supposedly going on a family vacation right after announcing that they're separating.
It is weird only in that if they are not going to socially separate, all this tells us is that they have decided to separate their assets. Is that worth announcing? Were we otherwise going to be alarmed if Sofie opened a new bank account in her own name?
For what it's worth, a friend of mine that used to work in a chain of high-end hotels had the Trudeaus as guests, and she said that Sophie treated everyone like trash.