No Trudeau
Justin Trudeau confirms he won’t seek the Liberal leadership in 2013.
“My kids are two and four years old and I barely see them enough as it is,” the eldest son of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau told a group of about 50 students at Wilfrid Laurier University Wednesday. “I’m not going to run for the leadership this time around.”
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