Talk:Justin Trudeau

There is an RFC on whether or not there are sufficient reliable sources to state that Trudeau and Katy Perry are dating. Please see Talk:Katy Perry. Wellington Bay (talk) 00:11, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

The article currently only says this about Trudeau's career as a teacher: After graduation, Trudeau stayed in Vancouver where he became a substitute teacher at local schools such as Killarney Secondary and worked permanently as a French and math teacher at the private West Point Grey Academy. ... It is not addressed further than this. Therefore, I do not think this is first-sentence worthy. He is known as a politician, not as a teacher. Thoughts? MediaKyle (talk) 14:49, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

I would lean towards agreeing with you. That he taught at the secondary school level is mentioned in the next paragraph of the lead, which is due weight, in my view. Our guideline for this is MOS:ROLEBIO, which says, "emphasize what made the person notable. Incidental and non-noteworthy roles (i.e. activities that are not integral to the person's notability) should usually not be mentioned in the lead paragraph". Also, it's a bit politically loaded, as certain opponents during the first campaign referred to him disparagingly as a "drama teacher", implying (among other things) that he was unqualified. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 15:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

We do typically note what a person's profession was before getting into politics, as that's usually a component of what leads to their notability as a politician. As much as certain agitators want to whine about "career politicians", it's actually quite rare in Canada for someone to do politics and nothing else. In Trudeau's case, I thought it would be useful to review sources from around the time of his father's funeral in 2000, since his eulogy is widely regarded as the turning point where he was on the path into politics from that point on, but they're all offline. He was only 28 at the time, early for anyone to establish themselves in any career, and as I recall from around then he was known as P.E. Trudeau's son more than anything else. Later in the paragraph there's an interview from 2007 about his role in a war film about a distant relative, noting that the directors wanted to cast "someone like Justin Trudeau" due to similarities in the character's political ambition. That's the best I can do, and I think leans towards not describing him as a teacher in the first sentence.

We might also add a profession based on the work the person did after leaving office, but Trudeau hasn't done much worth noting and seems more interested in being a socialite than anything. Obviously we also shouldn't include any of that. Ivanvector (^Talk/_Edits) 15:59, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

This has been widely reported. We should add this to the lede ~2026-87430-4 (talk) 21:08, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Hello @~2026-87430-4: Before any of that can be done, do you have independent reliable sources that are widely reporting on what your topic subject is? ArthurPlummer ( :) | talk | contribs) 21:19, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Here's an example

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/07/justin-trudeau-forced-out-trump-canada ~2026-87430-4 (talk) 22:09, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Of course this isn't something that can be described as fact, rather it's been suggested in op-eds and the like. But it could be mentioned in the lede, for example "Trump winning the 2024 United States presidential election has been noted as influencing Trudeau's decision to step down" ~2026-87430-4 (talk) 22:14, 8 February 2026 (UTC)