NANNIES KNOW TRUDEAUS

OTTAWA — The two nannies hired by Justin Trudeau to work at his new residence were previously employed by his family to look after his children, a cost he is passing on to taxpayers now that he is prime minister.

Marilou Nemiada Trayvilla and Marian Pueyo were hired last month as “special assistants” in the prime minister’s residence, although their roles appear chiefly to be providing child care to the three Trudeau children, who are 19 months, six years and eight years old.

Trayvilla was photographed carrying the youngest child, Hadrian, during his father’s swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall last month, and one of the nannies was seen supervising the children in Paris, where Trudeau was attending the UN climate change summit this week.

His wife, Sophie GrégoireTrudeau, travelled to Paris with him.

Trayvilla appears to have moved to Ottawa with family from the Philippines.

About five years ago she was working for Ottawa lawyer Kirsten Crain and her husband, John Morales, who lived around the corner from the home Trudeau later rented in Rockcliffe.

Crain declined to say whether Trayvilla was hired through the special government program that gives temporary work visas to foreign child care workers brought to Canada.

Trayvilla went to work for another family, then ended up with the Trudeaus after Justin Trudeau won the leadership of the party and moved from Montreal into a home on Manor Avenue in Ottawa.

She posted pictures of her and the Trudeau family on her Facebook page from last Christmas.

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed that Pueyo also worked for the Trudeau family previously.

Both women are Canadian citizens, the PMO says.

Even though the two women worked as nannies when Trudeau was only leader of the third party, the PMO maintains that child care is only part of their jobs providing “assistance” at the residence.