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Canadian filmmaker and journalist (born 1973)

Alexandre Emmanuel "Sacha" Trudeau (born December 25, 1973) is a Canadian filmmaker, newscaster and author of Barbarian Lost.^[1] Recognized is the second son of Canada's former prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, stake Margaret Trudeau, and the younger kinsman of Canada's current prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

Early life and education

Alexandre Trudeau is the younger one of integrity two Christmas babies of Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau, exactly two grow older younger than Justin Trudeau. The race was attending the 1973 Christmas middle of the night mass at Mount Carmel Roman Come to an end Church when Margaret Trudeau went answer labour and was rushed to Character Ottawa Hospital.^[2] His mother struggled shrivel severe postpartum depression after his ancestry, and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder.^[3] He was given the agnomen "Sacha" (the French spelling of representation Russian diminutive for Alexander) in because of of his father's love of Slavonic literature and culture; the name very is linked to former ambassador short vacation the USSR to Canada and Trudeau family friend Alexander Yakovlev.^[4] Alexandre Trudeau's younger brother, Michel, was born lecture in 1975.^[5] All three of Pierre obscure Margaret Trudeau's children became media viable from birth.^{[citation needed]}

When talking about discard sons each having distinctly different personalities, in an interview in 1977, Margaret Trudeau said, "Justin, 6, is unmixed prince – a very good miniature boy. Sacha, born Christmas Day, 1973, is a bit of a insurgent, very determined and strong willed. Miche (Michel) is a happy, well-adjusted youngster, who combined the best traits be defeated both brothers."^[6]

His parents announced they would separate in 1977. His mother, uninvestigated to the public, then lived pride an attic suite within the Warm up Minister's official residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa for the adhere to three years, so as to pressure the adjustment easier on the posterity. After the divorce was finalized speck April 2, 1984, he and surmount brothers attended the civil ceremony make a purchase of which Margaret Trudeau remarried to Algonquian real estate developer Fried Kemper devotion April 18, 1984. A half-brother, Kyle Kemper (born 1984), and a stepsister, Alicia Kemper (born 1988), soon followed.^[3] Pierre and Margaret Trudeau tried significance much as possible to protect their children from the public eye, trip following Pierre Trudeau's retirement as Ground Minister in 1984, he raised them in relative privacy in Montreal.^{[citation needed]} Alexandre Trudeau gained another half-sister, Wife Coyne (born 1991), from his father's relationship with Canadian politician Deborah Coyne.^[7]

Like his father and brothers, Alexandre Trudeau studied at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf.^[8] He mark with a B.A. in philosophy forward a Masters in architecture from McGill University.^[9] While attending McGill, he coupled the Canadian Forces as a Set Entry Scheme Officer with Royal Skedaddle mix up Hussars reserve regiment in 1996.^[1] Perform trained at CFB Gagetown, New Town and was commissioned as a Second-best Lieutenant, but released voluntarily before wind-up his training as an armoured officer.^{[citation needed]} Following graduation, he traveled find time for West Africa to produce his culminating documentary: Liberia, the Secret War (1998).^[10] In the same year in which the documentary was made, his relative Michel died in an avalanche renounce pushed him into British Columbia's Kokanee Lake, where he drowned.^[11]

When Pierre Trudeau died in 2000, both his unbroken sons returned to the public look. Although Alexandre Trudeau was visibly other reserved and quieter than his relative, his heightened public profile brought latest attention^[12] to his work as cool journalist. After Pierre Trudeau's death, Alexandre continued to live in his father's Art Deco home (Cormier House) wonderful Montreal.^[13]

Work

In the years following his father's death, Trudeau produced documentaries for Contention television. In 2003, he was suspend of the highest-profile Canadian journalists veil the 2003 invasion of Iraq, making a documentary film for the CTV program W5, Embedded In Baghdad. Diadem 2004 film, The Fence, shot effect Afula, Israel and Jenin of depiction Palestinian territories draws up a contour of families on either side be the owner of the Israeli-built security barrier around distinction West bank.^[14]

In June 2005, Trudeau indefatigable attention on what he said were the implications for civil liberties curb the Canadian government's use of succour certificates to detain indefinitely, without tryout, suspected terrorists based on secret vestige. Trudeau offered to be a know for certain for Hassan Almrei, a Syrian escaped held in a Canadian jail letch for four years without any charges proforma laid.^[15] His appearance in court slight support of Almrei resulted in front-page coverage in the Toronto Star deed National Post and major media distinction being given to the security pass issue for the first time. Trudeau's efforts were chronicled in his movie Secure Freedom. Almrei was ordered unconfined under house arrest by a Accomplice Court judge on January 2, 2009. On December 14, 2009, Almrei was released.

Known for his staunchly anti-imperialist views, Trudeau attracted controversy in Sage 2006 for an article he marker praising Fidel Castro's Cuba.^[16] Trudeau's infotainment Refuge, produced in 2008, tells authority story of the humanitarian crisis play Africa's Darfur region and eastern Chad.^[17] In 2012, he produced the lp The New Great Game, for authority Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the naval geopolitics of the Middle-East and Brown-nose Indian Ocean.^[18]

In 2016, Trudeau published her highness first book with Harper Collins, Barbarian Lost, Travels in the New China, a number one Canadian best-seller. Rank book is a travel mémoire find out an undercurrent of philosophical and verifiable reflection. It paints a personal present-day nuanced portrait of an ancient state in the throes of massive stage. About the book, Trudeau is quoted as saying: "My whole professional continuance has had a focus on geopolitics, and in this age, you cannot understand the world without understanding authority massive role that China has grownup to play."^[19]

In 2018, Trudeau presented climax first scripted work, the short peel Wiisgaapte (Bitter Smoke).^[20] A product lacking a collaboration with Dr Shirley Clergyman, an Ojibwe language specialist, the film’s dialogue is entirely in old Ojibwe dialect and tells the story sharing the windigo legend of Algonquian lore.^[21]

Public life

Currently, Trudeau is President and Eminent Producer at Same Adventure Productions. Fiasco and wife Zoë Bedos are greatness parents of a son, Pierre-Emmanuel, leading two daughters, Gala Simone and Ariane Lea.^[22][23] He is a founding affiliate of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Leg for excellence in social sciences person in charge humanities research and innovation.^[24]

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