Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau arrive at the Liberal leadership announcementSophie Gregoire-Trudeau — the wife of new Liberal leader Justin Trudeau — is someone Canadians are going to see a lot of in the next couple years.

On Sunday night, during his victory speech, Trudeau spent some time thanking her for her love and support:

Sophie, darling Sophie. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your patience. Even when you were impatient with me. Thank you for your wisdom, even when you were frustrated with me. Thank you for being a great dance partner in all its different ways.

Thank you for having supported me. Thank you for having given me everything I needed during this campaign, and in the coming years.

Gregoire is not as well-known in the rest of Canada as she is in her native Quebec.

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In many ways, the 38 year old former model and television host is as compelling a 'character' as her husband Justin Trudeau.

Her professional career:

After earning a

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The Conservatives have already begun slagging newly minted Liberal leader Justin Trudeau.

Political parties often send one or two MPs to the conventions of their opponents.

The Conservative Party's representative at the Liberal leadership announcement on Sunday, was none other than Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore. And he wasn't shy to voice his opinion about what transpired.

Here's what he had to say:

Yahoo!: So what do you think of the leadership results?

Moore: Obviously no surprise but we'll see.

I think you put the gun to the head of anybody in this room and you ask them 'quickly what would Justin Trudeau do as prime minister tomorrow', nobody knows.

He didn't run on any policy, he ran on his celebrity status because he is the son of Pierre Trudeau. So that's an advantage, but that reservoir runs dry very quickly when people start actually looking for a prospective prime minister and there's a long way before he demonstrates that he's prepared to lead a G-8 nation.

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A graphic interpretation of Justin Trudeau's acceptance speech

Justin Trudeau was named the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday, capturing 80 per cent of vote that saw more than 104,000 party members and supporters cast ballots from every riding across the country.

This is the speech that Trudeau gave Sunday night in Ottawa:

Thank you, my friends, thank you

Normally I'd start by thanking family and friends for putting up with my absences, with the long weeks on the road and the campaign, but that's exactly not entirely right in this situation.

Never before in a leadership has family and friends been such an integral part. Family was never something I had in spite of this race. It was at the very root of why this race was so important to me. We did this together.

Sophie, darling Sophie. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your patience. Even when you were impatient with me. Thank you for your wisdom, even when you were frustrated with me. Thank you for being a great dance partner in all its different ways.

Thank

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As expected, on Sunday, the Liberals gave Justin Trudeau the keys to their leaders' office.

In convincing fashion, Trudeau won the leadership with over 80 per cent of first ballot votes (based on a system whereby each riding is given the same weight).

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But is Trudeau the right leader for the Liberals, right now?

We went to our political panel to get their thoughts on that question. Here's what they had to say:

Gerry Nicholls, political analyst, former Vice President of the National Citizens Coalition:

I think he’s definitely the right leader for the Liberals. True, he’s a relative novice, he has not yet been battle tested, his current popularity could turn out to be nothing but a “sugar high”, but all the same, Trudeau embodies something the battered Liberals desperately need right now,: hope. Having him as a leader is a gamble, but it’s a gamble the Liberals have to take.

Alex Tsakumis, political

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Justin Trudeau, his wife Sophie Gregoire, son Xavier and daughter Ella-Grace. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Moments after Justin Trudeau was named the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, he did the verbal equivalent of rolling up his sleeves, vowing that now, after years of directionless politics, rotating leaders and infighting, it was time to earn back the trust of Canada.

Trudeau, the eldest son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, used his coronation to publicly call for the end of old divisions in the party. It was that infighting that led Canadians to abandon the Liberals, he said. They needed to do a better job to earn their trust back.

“I don’t care if you thought my father was great or arrogant,” Trudeau said Sunday night in front of a cheering Ottawa convention hall. “It doesn’t matter to me if you were a Chretien-Liberal, a Turner-Liberal, a Martin-Liberal or any other kind of Liberal. The era of hyphenated Liberals ends right here, right now, tonight.

“From this day forward, we welcome all Liberals as Canadian Liberals. United in our dedication to serve and lead

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If there is one thing you can say about the Liberal Party of Canada’s leadership campaign, it's that it has been an inclusive affair. When more people cast votes on who should become the leader of a third-ranked political party than live in some provinces, you’ve got to tip your cap.

In choosing the replacement for interim leader Bob Rae, the party chose to take a different tact than your average party election. Instead of allowing a select group of delegates throw support behind various candidates, the Liberal Party gave everyone a chance to speak.

Everyone. That is party members and those who consider themselves party supporters. There were 127,264 such people registered to vote on whether it would be Justin Trudeau or one of his opponents who would take the helm.

A week of voting closed at 3 p.m. on Sunday, just hours before the new leader would be announced. According to the official tally for votes was 103,741. That is a lot of cooks stirring the stew.

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For almost three days at the NDP policy convention in Montreal, Thomas Mulcair and the New Democrats tried to avoid the L word — the L word being Liberals, of course.

Organizers instead wanted to focus on attacking the Conservatives and re-jigging their own brand — delegates passed a resolution omitting overt references to socialism in the preamble to their constitution.

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On Sunday, in a post-conference media scrum, just hours before the Liberals were about to name their new leader, Mulcair was, however, forced to talked about the elephant in the room: the Justin Trudeau Liberals.

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For a leader of a party who is taking a dive in the polls, Mulcair certainly seems confident.

Here are some excerpts from the scrum:

On the election of a new Liberal leader:

[The person they elect today] will be their seventh leader in ten years so they have a lot

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Justin Trudeau says he's not trying to solidify policy while campaigning for the leadership of the Liberal party. …Liberal leadership candidate Justin Trudeau is the exact opposite of an unknown entity. He has been in the public spotlight since he was a wee child causing headaches for the security detail at 24 Sussex Drive.

Even people who don’t follow Canadian politics know Trudeau, and by now they know he is at least the candidate likely to be named the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada at a convention in Ottawa on Sunday.

By now, there have been hundreds of articles written about who Trudeau is and what he stands for. And, yes, you have likely seen just as much attention paid to perceived gaps in his policy book, the “rookie mistakes” he has made and what form the Liberal party would take under his leadership.

You know his name, you know his lineage and you probably even know about the charity boxing match. But here are eight things you may not know about the man likely to be named the next leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

1. Justin Trudeau was born on Dec. 25, 1971 – Christmas

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