7 Margaret Trudeau
with award-winning broadcaster Vicki Gabereau
“Just watch me” was Pierre Trudeau's famously defiant line back in 1970 during the October crisis in Quebec. In
those days, however, most Canadians were more interested in watching his vivacious, free-spirited young wife. Margaret Trudeau was
Canada's Jackie Kennedy. Her life was not unlike that of Princess Diana, another glamorous young wife in a similarly restrictive marriage who also liked to
venture out of bounds. In her first two memoirs, Beyond Reason and Consequences,
she revealed that life with the Prime Minister, a man 30 years her senior, was not all roses. In fact it was often depressing and lonely. While he was
pirouetting for the press, she was dancing with the stars.
Changing My Mind is the one-time flower child's latest look back at her life. Now a grandmother and having been treated for late-diagnosed
mental illness, Margaret Trudeau is able to see her amazing life through a much different lens.
This book is also a tool for her energetic advocacy on behalf of the mentally ill.
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