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But a nanny for your kids? Scratch that — two nannies? I’m sorry, Prime Minister, but no. There are many burdens of office that the taxpayers should compensate you for. Being a parent is not a burden of office.

And yet. As reported by the CBC this week, two women, officially designated as “special assistants at the prime minister’s residence,” have been hired. They will make between $15-20 an hour during the day and $11-13 an hour overnight. Officially, the government line is that these are household staff for the prime minister who just happen to do some child care. But no one outside of Mr. Trudeau’s inner circle seems to be taking that seriously. One of the women has been travelling with the family during Mr. Trudeau’s recent summit appearances.

Caring for children is not the same thing as driving Mr. Trudeau to Parliament and back

Look, lots of Canadians work hard, granted, but prime minister is still a uniquely challenging job. We should do what we can to ease the stresses that go with it. Not just as a courtesy — though that’s part of it. We should do it so that our head of government can focus all his attention and energy on the issues we’ve entrusted him with, and not the more mundane obstacles of daily life.

But caring for children is not the same thing as driving Mr. Trudeau to Parliament and back. The Prime Minister and his wife have been blessed with three beautiful, healthy children. That’s wonderful. But they aren’t the country’s children, and it’s not our job to raise them.

Because it’s 2015, saying mommy should stay home and raise the kids smacks of sexism. I get that, and have no opinion on how Ms. Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau should spend her days — charitable work, using her husband’s office to open doors, private-sector employment, Netflix all day — whatever. Up to her. But, and this is important, there are no official duties for the spouse of a prime minister. Ms. Grégoire-Trudeau wasn’t elected to anything, and isn’t required to do anything. She now lives in a house with domestic staff, a security force and her kids will be driven to their appointments in tanks that happen to look like limos. That’s already more help on the public dime than she was getting before. Why the nannies?