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Canada's Trudeau won't be moving back into boyhood home for now

Published 2015-10-26, 03:12 p/m
© Reuters. Canada's Trudeau won't be moving back into boyhood home for now

OTTAWA, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister-designate
Justin Trudeau will not be moving into 24 Sussex Drive, the
official residence of the country's leader and where he spent
his childhood, just yet.
Trudeau's office said the incoming prime minister, who had
not renewed the lease on his Ottawa home long before the Oct. 19
election that swept him to power, and his family will live in a
22-room house called Rideau Cottage instead.
The 147-year-old official residence has long been in need of
repairs. Most prime ministers have declined to authorize big
renovations under their watch for fear of being accused of
over-spending.
"It oppresses its residents - though they are required by
the unbreakable codes of populism to deny any problem - and it
doesn't uplift the nation. Frankly it doesn't even do much for
the neighbourhood," Maclean's magazine once wrote about the
building.
"It has no fire sprinklers. Its walls are lined with
asbestos. Its plumbing and wiring would not pass muster in any
other house in Ottawa. It is drafty. Its air conditioners make a
racket. It has, by all accounts, hideous carpeting on the
stairs."
Trudeau, who lived as a child in the official residence as
the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, will make
decisions about the building once he has been briefed by
officials, his office said in a statement on Monday.
Rideau Cottage is located across the street from 24 Sussex
on the Rideau Hall grounds where Canada's governor general, the
representative of Queen Elizabeth II, Canada's head of state,
resides.

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