Editing Gerald Butts (section)

==Personal life==
Butts is the nephew of the former Canadian senator [[Peggy Butts|Mary Alice "Peggy" Butts]], whom he cites as a major influence on him.<ref name="G&M">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/gerald-butts-the-guardian-of-the-trudeaunarrative/article31692482|title=Gerald Butts: The BFF in the PMO|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|last=Radwanski|first=Adam|date=September 3, 2016|access-date=September 3, 2016}}</ref>

He is married to Jodi (Heimpel) Butts, a lawyer,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lsuc.on.ca/uploadedFiles/PDC/Archives/Call_to_the_Bar/2000-02%20programme.pdf |title=Law Society of Upper Canada – call to the bar in Toronto on Feb. 24, 2000. |access-date=2016-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160210165020/https://www.lsuc.on.ca/uploadedFiles/PDC/Archives/Call_to_the_Bar/2000-02%20programme.pdf |archive-date=2016-02-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and they have two children, Aidan Ignatius (born May 6, 2006)<ref name="mcgee" /> and Ava Augusta (born December 1, 2007).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/news-archives/2008/fall/alumnotes/|title=Alumnotes|publisher=[[McGill University]]| url-status=live| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170607190951/http://www.mcgill.ca/news-archives/2008/fall/alumnotes/| archivedate=June 7, 2017}}</ref> They resided in Toronto for 13 years until the family relocated in the summer of 2016 to Ottawa. Butts currently resides at [[Champlain Park]] area of [[Westboro, Ottawa]].<ref name="G&M"/>