document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); How the Nuremberg code will be brought to bear upon American medical practitioners. [44] She is an honorary patron of the Canadian Mental Health Association. Nobody Has Debunked Anything. They, their aides and friends all said so. Her numerous autobiographical books are filled. According to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, Pierre broke up with her while she was having an affair with Ronnie Wood. Preface by TLB Staff. Dang. In Beyond Reason she wrote of her experiences living as a hippy in Morocco before she met the prime minister, her life as the first lady and her eventual split with Trudeau after making headlines befriending the Rolling Stones. [31], Trudeau filed for a no-fault divorce at the Ontario Supreme Court on November 16, 1983,[32] which was finalized on April 2, 1984. No evidence they had not met Castro before. [1] She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971; three years after he became prime minister. She publicly states today she suffered from bipolar disorder and self-control issues. 1st leaked video of firefight with Reptilians; what the White Hats are really up to? Trudeau is buried in St-Rmi, about 50 kilometres south of Montreal, but the St-Rmi-de-Napierville Cemetery offers few clues that one of Canada's most historic figures is entombed there, just a few metres from a busy road in rural Quebec. Trudeau is an advocate for people with bipolar disorder, with which she has been diagnosed. Castros communist revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, considered the worlds closest brush with nuclear war, slammed shut relations between the two countries during the Cold War. Nothing has been debunked. Read more about cookies here. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. Pierre Trudeau was a bachelor before he became Prime Minister in 1968. Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas day, 1971. We have enabled email notificationsyou will now receive an email if you receive a reply to your comment, there is an update to a comment thread you follow or if a user you follow comments. Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, nine months before Justin was born. "House of Commons Journals, 28th Parliament, 3rd Session: Vol. The New York Times. He was smart, charming, and funny. The Globe and Mail. [40][41] In 2014, she visited Mali as an ambassador of WaterAid Canada. The marriage of debonair bachelor prime minister Pierre Trudeau to 22-year-old Margaret Sinclair of Vancouver on March 4, 1971 came as a surprise to most Canadians. Come on. She smuggled drugs in the Prime Ministers official government luggage. That is a non-starter for this author. Margaret Trudeau has the distinction of being the only Canadian woman to have been the wife of a prime minister and mother of another prime minister. Answer: Barely sentient, Police seek witnesses after man, 58, killed in Fallowfield Road crash, tap here to see other videos from our team, Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account and fewer ads, Get exclusive access to the National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on, Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists, Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists, Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword, Access articles from across Canada with one account, Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments, Get email updates from your favourite authors. He turned Cuba into the Western worlds first Marxist country. But then Justin Trudeau improbably grew up to look like this: So what is all this talk about debunking the claim? She befriended Fidel Castro, hung out with the Rolling Stones and partied at Studio 54 in New York. Okay, but she was not in Canada. Today we might remember Fidel Castro as an old man, but he was one of the most impressive people in the world back then, especially to fellow Marxists like the Trudeaus. Human Reproduction. The 32-year-old Mrs. Trudeau was last reported living with Ottawa businessman Jimmy Johnson who runs a furniture store. "There was a release of some of their online chat . No major news sources support that claim and researching it leads to a dead-end. [19] Although she had accompanied Pierre Trudeau in public a year before to ice skate and dance at an event at Rideau Hall, official residence of Canada's Governor General,[16] it was a complete secret except to immediate-family members and close friends that she was in a romantic relationship, then in a six-month engagement to the Prime Minister. She was clearly attracted to men in positions of power, even some who were old and unattractive. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus' Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have . They met when he was 48 and she was 18. Margaret Trudeau sits on the lanai of her 1920s penthouse, near downtown Montreal, sipping tea. Castro, Fidel. I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. Margaret Trudeau smiles as Cuban President Fidel Castro. The Trudeaus announced they had become besties with the dictator and sang his praises during the height of his human rights violations. Tributes [ edit] They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. The Trudeaus introduced Castro to their children. This is the part about which 'debunkers' intentionally mislead readers. The notion that the Trudeaus and the Castros met in 1971, however, is based what appears to be a willful misreading of a newspaper article by a reddit user: So now that we've established the similar appearance, we need to figure out if it's even possible that Fidel met with Margaret before Justin's conception. Margaret Trudeau about Fidel Castro: " oh, what a charmer. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. But they are not nearly so avoidant or look so desperate to kill a story. Beyond the normal extensive publicity her high-profile position brought, in a few instances, she headlined. The growth in Kenya's communities prove it", "Months before Canada's election, Justin Trudeau's colorful mother takes the stage to tell all", "The University of Western Ontario: Honorary Degrees Awarded, 1881present", Maggie Trudeau fights to end mental illness stigma, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Trudeau&oldid=1127664260, This page was last edited on 16 December 2022, at 00:17. On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced a new chapter in U.S.-Cuban diplomatic relations with the beginning of normalization after a half-century trade blockade and no diplomatic ties. Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Sinclair married in March ARSH 1971 and honeymooned in the Caribbean where they met up with their Communist idol Fidel Castro. I think it is about time.. Due to his age and lack of previous children, rumors began to spread that Pierre was infertile and that Castro and others were the biological fathers of his children. That trip set the stage for partnerships between the two countries in agriculture and other areas, and strong ongoing tourism links. They demonstrated a striking level of familiarity before even getting off the tarmac of their 1976 trip. They all come from left-leaning websites who sympathize with Trudeau. [45] In July 2019, she attended an opening ceremony of WE College in Narok County (Kenya) with former Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell, Kenyan First Lady Margaret Kenyatta and Craig Kielburger, a co-founder of WE Charity organization. We encountered an issue signing you up. Cohn, Andrew. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. He turned Cuba into the Western worlds first Marxist country. 100% of the debunking articles avoid addressing the Caribbean trip altogether. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. Senator Edward Kennedy. The story is perfectly plausible. Sinclair did not recognize him, and she, in fact, thought little of their encounter, but Trudeau was captivated by the carefree "flower child", nearly twenty-nine years younger than he was, and began to pursue her. Third, the timing is uncanny. Trudeau had a difficult time earning a living after her marriage. "O Canada: Trudeau's Castro Tribute Raises Eyebrows." Sperm banks barely existed back then. "Fidel Castro fue un lder de toda una vida que sirvi a su . The two leaders' paths did not literally cross at that time: no head-of-state level visit took place between Cuba and Canada in 1970. The Trudeaus seperated in May, 1977, after less than seven years of marriage. [30] She gave many tell-all interviews to Canadian and American magazines, and appeared in two motion pictures. However, this Vancouver-born public figure. [4] Her grandfather, Thomas Kirkpatrick Bernard, was born in Makassar, Dutch Celebes, now in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and immigrated in 1906 at age 15 with his family to Penticton, British Columbia, eventually working as a payroll clerk for Canadian Pacific Railway. The story is perfectly plausible. They all come from left-leaning websites who sympathize with Trudeau. Asked at the time if she thought her campaigning was helping Pierre Trudeau pick up votes, she replied, "I won't know until July 8th. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. From Wikipedia: Footnote 19 of the same Wikipedia article cites to a April 13, 1971 article from The Ottawa Journal. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. For example, in Vicesarticle, We Investigated Those Damning Rumors About Fidel Castro Being Justin Trudeaus Real Dad by Drew Brown, Brown does not investigate anything. They all recite the official 1976 travel dates of Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister as though that proves they never travelled to or around Cuba on any prior date. 6 August 2013. They recite the Canadian governments official travel dates to Cuba and painfully avoid the Trudeaus extensive personal trip to the Caribbean trip in Spring 1971. Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. Margaret was 22 when she married the 51-year-old prime minister and was the subject of intense media scrutiny. Margaret Trudaeu circa 1977 in New York. It could not be less compelling. According to John Englishs Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliot Trudeau 19682000 they were charmed by Castro and made several trips to embargo-era Cuba just to see him. He beat the Americans in an armed invasion by personally commanding the battle in a tank. When asked about her role in a marriage to the prime minister, Trudeau said, "I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. Kennedy later denied any romantic involvement with Mrs. Trudeau. Friends said at the time her life revolved around her three children -- Sasha, Justin and Michel -- and a growing interest in Japanese cooking. Due to his age and lack of previous children, rumors began to spread that Pierre was infertile and that Castro and others were the biological fathers of his children. They divorced in 1984, during his final months in office. 1976 Margaret Trudeau with both arms around Fidel Castro still wearing the dress in which they first officially met. Kasprak only verified Castro's location on April 1 and April 19. The article sets the scene by discussing the promiscuity of Pierre Trudeau and his wife Margaret in excruciating detail, a sentence I am both amused and ashamed to have just typed. His sexual appetite was so legendary this article cannot efficiently capture it. [3] Her grandmother, Rose Edith (Ivens) Bernard, with whom Trudeau had an especially close relationship, lived in Roberts Creek, British Columbia, in later life, and was from Virden, Manitoba. Margaret Joan Trudeau (ne Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian activist. Perhaps that was unfair at the time. Maria Doyle Kennedy. [12] Intveld was born in Padang, present-day West Sumatra, Indonesia. https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042, Copyright 2021 Covid 19 Reporter. Similarly, AP News and affiliates write headlines such as No, Fidel Castro is not Canada PM Trudeaus father, yet their articles simply recount the improbability of the Diaz-Balart suicide note. The sun-splashed apartment seems like the lair of a madcap aunt: a warren of cozy rooms with old . In terms of public appearances, Castro gave a address to attendees of the first education and culture congress on 1 April 1971. Why would Pierre Trudeau chose anyone else to be the biological father of his children? Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Trudeau's statement, as well as his family's friendly history with Castro, led to speculation that a much harder truth lay behind his soft words. Kasprak does admit Justin Trudeau would have to have been conceived between March 16 and April 22, so why avoid addressing that the Trudeaus within spitting distance of Cuba during that time? Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. Mrs. Trudeau said she was drawn to the 23-year-old Sullivan's 'extreme youth' after leaving French bottled water magnate Bruce Nevins in New York because he was 'a confirmed bachelor.'. The Trudeaus announced they had become besties with the dictator and sang his praises during the height of his human rights violations. He survived CIA coups and assassination attempts. She became embroiled in a scandal for having sex with Ted Kennedy (gross). She sneaked away from official functions to get high. An executive of Centretown Citizens Housing Cooperative says staff have begun offering permanent relocations to residents displaced by the fire. 100% of the debunking articles avoid addressing the Caribbean trip altogether. Ignoring the biological impossibility of conceiving a child a literal year before that child was born, the user linked to an article by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, describing the first time the two leaders spoke to (not met) each other: Pierre Trudeaus and Fidel Castros paths crossed for the first time in 1970, when the Canadian government sought to negotiate the exile of members of the FLQ, who had kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross. They kept their romance private, so Canadians were shocked after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation led its morning radio broadcast[16] about Prime Minister Trudeau honeymooning at Alta Lake, British Columbia, at the foot of Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort[17][18] the day after a surprise wedding in North Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 4, 1971. A local station master, in charge of signaling, has been arrested. The theory is straightforward enough. He altogether avoids the story he claims he disproved and then tries to do a mic drop. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus Spring 1971 vacation and thenrelies on its own omissionto say Margaret Trudeau could not have absconded from Canada at the time. At Studio 54 on the eve of the Canadian election, 1979. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. Third, the timing is uncanny. An article written by Alex Kasprak for leftist fact-checking website Snopes.com declares the story false, but tries to mislead readers about its supporting points. That is strange for authors who claim to have the truth on their sides. 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. "Castro Rejects New Ties to U.S." Margaret Joan Trudeau ( ne Sinclair, born Sept. 10, 1948) is a Canadian author, actress, photographer, former television talk show hostess and social advocate for people with bipolar disorder, with which she was diagnosed. And yes, young Castro and Justin Trudeau might bear a physical resemblance. His uncited claim that Justin was born long before the couple travelled to Cuba is just a recitation of the official dates Trudeau visited in his official capacity as prime minister. On his visit, Margaret welcomed the leader at his hotel on behalf of the Trudeaus. After she refused, the King sent the equerry back just to ask her name. On 19 April, he gave a defiantly anti-American speech that commemorated the 10th anniversary of the defeat of the United Statessponsored Bay of Pigs invasion. If Ted Kennedy met her qualifications as a sexual partner, Castro was bigger, stronger, thinner, handsomer, and more powerful. He was 6'3, strong, and an athlete who sported the frame of an American football player. Not a very impressive argument, Brown. The remark was wildly mocked and dismissed in public during the campaign by members of the press gallery as well as by her husband's main political rivals Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leader Robert Stanfield and New Democratic Party leader David Lewis. In April 1971, the Trudeaus took a long "second honeymoon" all around the Caribbean. "Trudeau Weds in Canada." He fathered 11 acknowledged children and rumors are he has multiple times that many bastards. Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime. Margaret Trudeau has so many stories. She attended Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Delbrook Senior Secondary School in North Vancouver. Sperm banks barely existed back then. "From the day I became Mrs. Pierre Elliott Trudeau," she writes in her memoirs, "a glass panel was gently lowered into place around me, like a patient in a mental hospital no longer considered able to make decisions and cannot be exposed to a harsh light. Trudeau died on Thursday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. at his home in Montral with his surviving sons, Justin (who became the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada in 2015) and Sacha, and his former wife, Margaret at his side. Justin Trudeau was born 8 1/2 months later. [35], When Pierre Trudeau died in 2000, Margaret was at his bedside with their surviving sons Justin and Alexandre. Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, nine months before Justin was born. My day with Margaret Trudeauthe glamorous former first lady of Canada, 1970s tabloid fixture, and mother of the country's handsome, young . [33][34][30], In November 1998, the Trudeaus' youngest son, Michel, an avid outdoorsman, was killed when an avalanche swept him to the bottom of British Columbia's Kokanee Lake. ', Mrs. Trudeau, the mother of three boys who are being raised by Trudeau, described the prime minister as 'mean about money' and said every night for two years before the separation she whispered to herself 'Pierre, please give me a divorce.'. He was smart, charming, and funny. Kuczynski, Alex. AP Images. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be . Jukic, A.M. "Length of Human Pregnancy and Contributors to Its Natural Variation." )[26], Over time, the marriage disintegrated[27] to the point, as recounted in her 1982 book Consequences, Trudeau had affairs with Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, Lou Rawls, and a friendship with US Senator Ted Kennedy. Getty Images. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail confirms that Pierre and Margaret Trudeau became close friends with Fidel Castro. Perhaps the strangestdenialcomes from the Canadian government itself. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. ', The brief affair left her 'crushed' and feeling like a 'fool,' the woman 29 years younger than Trudeau said. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. Her nude photographs are still widely published on the internet. Dr. Marty Makary, Facts Now Prove The Govt EXPERTS Spread more Misinformation/Lies than any other source for past three years. Kennedy denied any romantic involvement with Mrs. Trudeau. Not very impressive at all. Trudeau had difficulty adjusting to her new position. Almost one million Canadian tourists visit Cuba every year. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. He would be turning 60 when she was barely out of her 20s. They all recite the official 1976 travel dates of Pierre Trudeau as Prime Minister as though that proves they never travelled to or around Cuba on any prior date. there is no plausible circumstance during which a meeting between Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau could have occurred during the biologically necessary time that accommodates their known public schedules Based on the information Kasprak supplied, this is simply false. Liberal party organizers considered her a top campaign asset, and sent her off alone to help local candidates in hotly contested ridings while, as critics noted, the wives of Stanfield and Lewis were on the campaign trail but rarely spoke and stood behind their husbands at events. Each debunker makes a bold claim and then avoids the very story they claim to debunk. Pierre was an aging playboy who had fathered no known offspring despite being sexually promiscuous his whole adult life. On 27 November 2016, two days after Castros death was announced, a user on the Donald Trump subreddit /r/The_Donald presented a theory that Justin Trudeau, the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, was actually the love child of Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau. Margaret Trudeau said she visited Castro at his hotel before the funeral to welcome him on behalf of the family. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Ral Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.". I guess you actually cant believe everything that semi-professional agitators post on the internet. Trudeau was born a little more than nine months after the marriage of his parents and more than four years before Margaret made a much-publicized first trip to Cuba and met Fidel Castro.

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