Inside ‘disco dancer’ Kamala Harris’s high school years in Canada – and why she keeps tight-lipped about them [Video]

14:00 EDT 26 Jul 2024, updated 16:00 EDT 26 Jul 2024

She loved disco dancing to Michael Jackson and even started an all-girls dance troop. She was well-liked, known for her laugh and bubbly personality.

But as Kamala Harris amps up her presidential campaign it’s unlikely voters will hear much from her about how she spent her formative years in Canada, a DailyMail.com investigation has learned.

Harris was crushed when her divorced mother told her they were moving from California to Montreal – and she remained homesick for the duration of their five-year stay in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.

There is no mention of her Canadian education in Harris’s official biography on the White House website and in her 2019 memoir The Truths We Hold: An American Journey, she wrote only eight paragraphs about this period of her life.

Harris and younger sister Maya, now 57, moved from Berkeley to Montreal in 1977, five years after their parents …