Well that's out of left field. I suppose that's a testament to how well they've done to keep their private life private.
An interesting historical parallel, Pierre Trudeau was the first PM to be divorced while in office.

I care about this as much as I care about the divorce of any other people I do not know. It is none of my business and it does not matter to me.
- I really don't understand why I should care what people do with their personal life.

Seemed like she didn't wanted him to run again, but he is definitely going.
- 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".
  
  We don't vote people in, we vote them out. He should have resigned in style. Now he'll lose to some asshole.

I was not expecting this. Quite out of nowhere.
- 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.
- Not that weird. The kids are the priority, and they should be.
  
  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.

How long until she lands a cushy job at one of her previous corporate “benefactors”?

I guess he's not stepping down as a leader of the LPC.
E: As in, maybe the political work was tough on the family and they expected him to stop doing it at some point, which did not arrive.

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