Son of late PM Pierre Trudeau set to move back into his childhood home - this time as nation's leader
Newly elected Canadian prime minister fulfils his destiny by following in the footsteps of his father, Pierre Trudeau, who also led his country.
Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is moving back to the house where he grew up.
The Liberal leader, son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, led his party to victory in a federal election on Monday, defeating Stephen Harper's Conservatives by a wide margin.
The win returns Trudeau, 43, to the prime minister's official residence at 24 Sussex Drive where he lived for almost 12 years while his father was in office.
More than 40 years ago, no less than the most powerful man on the planet predicted the younger Trudeau's destiny.
"Tonight we'll dispense with the formalities. I'd like to toast the future prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau," Richard Nixon said during a state dinner in Ottawa hosted by Pierre Trudeau in 1972.
Justin Trudeau was four months old that day, the first born of a dashing prime minister who drew comparisons to John F. Kennedy after rising to power in 1968 on a wave of support dubbed "Trudeaumania". The architect of Canada's version of the Bill of Rights, Pierre Trudeau remains to this day one of the few Canadian politicians widely known to Americans.