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In 2000, Castro made a rare appearance out of Cuba to attend Pierres funeral in Canada. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Margaret Trudeau, nearly three decades younger than her husband, made tabloid headlines in the 1970s for dancing nights away at New York discos such as Studio 54 while her husband was busy with. Browns so-called investigation altogether missed an obvious Wikipedia article showing the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971, with citations to the actual reporters covering it. They divorced in 1984, during his final months in office. 40 Trudeau Castro Photos and Premium High Res Pictures - Getty Images FILTERS CREATIVE EDITORIAL VIDEO 40 Trudeau Castro Premium High Res Photos Browse 40 trudeau castro stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. 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. The first of five excerpts from her book Consequences, to be published Jan. 30, focuses on her 1978 trip with Sullivan to London at the invitation of British publisher John Marqusee, who wished to discuss her writing. The first time Castro and the Trudeaus met face-to-face was a famous trip made by the Canadian couple to Cuba in 1976. Fidel Castro put them both to shame. Don't forget, Castro was a hero figure for the international Left in the 1970s. Within hours of their first official meeting, Margaret was photographed intimately touching and holding Fidel Castro with both arms. If you are a Home delivery print subscriber, unlimited online access is. After all it could have been Pierres idea. 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. Kasprak only verified Castro's location on April 1 and April 19. In February 2018, the Diaz-Balart rumor prompted the Canadian government to publicly deny the story. Trudeau is an advocate for people with bipolar disorder, with which she has been diagnosed. Castro, like most Communists, was also a sex pervert and engaged in orgies and cuckoldry with Pierre and Margaret Trudeau ON THEIR HONEYMOON. [39], From 2002 to 2017, Trudeau was the honorary president of WaterAid Canada, an Ottawa-based organization dedicated to helping the poorest communities in developing countries build sustainable water supply and sanitation services. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. "What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been" Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. That is a non-starter for this author. In an except from her biography published in the Toronto Star, Mrs. Trudeau also discussed a drug-filled relationship with a rock musician, Tom Sullivan, whose appeal was his 'extreme youth. Although the couple initially appeared to have a very close and loving relationship, the marriage soon began to fall apart. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail confirms that Pierre and Margaret Trudeau became close friends with Fidel Castro. A self-confessed drug addict, Margaret smuggled drugs in her husband's luggage while traveling, and made scantily-clad appearances at Studio 54. Since then, she has held acting gigs, become an author, a aphotographer as well as a mental health advocate. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. Thirty-eight years after that trip, Trudeau says she is celebrating the thawing of U.S.-Cuban relations along with the Cuban people, a move that was helped along through secret meetings held in Ottawa. While in London, Mrs. Trudeau met actor Jack Nicholson -- 'the first real rival to Pierre. According to a 2009 Globe and Mailarticleby Margaret Wente, actress Margot Kidder (Superman, Superman II), classical guitarist Liona Boyd, and actress Kim Cattrall all claimed to have slept with him at some time. One doesnt even have to believe any of that, though, as science gives us a rough estimate of when the future leader of Canada was conceived, and history can tell us where Margaret, Pierre, and Castro were during this window of opportunity. "O Canada: Trudeau's Castro Tribute Raises Eyebrows." Margaret Trudeau stands withbaby Michel next to Fidel Castro and Pierre Trudeau at the departure ceremony in Havana at the end of the Trudeaus1976 state visit to Cuba. At Studio 54 on the eve of the Canadian election, 1979. ', In the follow-up to an earlier book about her escapades, Mrs. Trudeau said she left Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in 1977 after choosing 'independence over marital vows. Within hours of their first official meeting, Margaret was photographed intimately touching and holding Fidel Castro with both arms. She was clearly attracted to men in positions of power, even some who were old and unattractive. She is the first woman in Canadian history to have been both the wife and the mother of prime ministers. The story is perfectly plausible. For example, in 2018, internet users spread a rumor that Fidel Castros recently deceased son Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart (Fidelito) announced Justin Trudeau was his half-brother in his suicide note. In her earlier book, Beyond Reason, she wrote of her split with Trudeau after making headlines befriending the Rolling Stones. 100% of the debunking articles avoid addressing the Caribbean trip altogether. The Globe and Mail. In 2000, Castro made a rare appearance out of Cuba to attend Pierres funeral in Canada. This is the part about which debunkers intentionally mislead readers. He outlived two Kennedy brothers behind those attempts. Marisa Tomei. Trudeau graduated in 1969 from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. If that is not enough evidence, or if the prospect of a head of state (or his spouse) making secret visits to foreign nations unnoticed sounds plausible, careful examination of the historical record provides little chronologic room to place Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro together at the time necessary to have conceived the child. It is a fact the Trudeaus were in the Caribbean in Spring 1971. 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. [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. Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, nine months before Justin was born. Before even leaving the tarmac, both Trudeaus were showing an unusual amount of familiarity with Fidel considering he was a national leader they just allegedly met. It could not be less compelling. 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. They all took photographs together. First, Margaret Trudeau, Pierre Trudeau, and Fidel Castro were all notoriously sexually promiscuous. . Fidel Castro, for his part, was in Cuba during this conception window. Sperm banks barely existed back then. The Trudeaus don't meet Fidel until 1976, when Justin was five. "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. 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. Okay, but she was not in Canada. Allan Gotlieb, his ambassador to Washington, complained about one dinner he hosted for Mr. Trudeau because he had three girlfriends therehe carried on downstairs even though Margaret [while separated] was still in residence upstairs. It's been a quiet silly rumor for years: Justin Trudeau is the love child of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Margaret Trudeau who was rumored to have had an affair with Castro in the late 60s, early 70's. Trudeau won't comment on the rumors but holy shit, Batman, there are incredible physical similarities between Trudeau and Castro. 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. 1976 Margaret Trudeau with both arms around Fidel Castro still wearing the dress in which they first officially met. Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas day, 1971. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children. [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. [42], On May 5, 2006, Trudeau announced she has bipolar disorder. The announcement was greeted with joy by many Cubans who have struggled to support themselves and their families through deprivations their government says are a result of the economic blockade. Turns out he did in fact, Pierre and Fidel met for the first time one year before Justin was born. The Trudeaus announced they had become besties with the dictator and sang his praises during the height of his human rights violations. She smuggled drugs in the Prime Ministers official government luggage. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children. Almost one million Canadian tourists visit Cuba every year. The story clearly got under the skin of someone in Canadian parliament. Come on. She sneaked away from official functions to get high. "[38], On April 27, 2020, Trudeau was hospitalized with smoke inhalation after a fire broke out in her apartment building. Third, the timing is uncanny. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail confirms that Pierre and Margaret Trudeau became close friends with Fidel Castro. Beyond the normal extensive publicity her high-profile position brought, in a few instances, she headlined. It also marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship between Pierre Trudeau and Castro, who made an unprecedented trip to Montreal in 2000to attend the former prime ministers funeral, although frail and ailing. In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be somewhere close to Cuba in March and April 1971. 'I wanted him badly,' she maintained, 'but I didn't need him.'. Third, the timing is uncanny. They altogether avoid addressing the easily researchable Caribbean trip in Spring 1971. 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. My day with Margaret Trudeauthe glamorous former first lady of Canada, 1970s tabloid fixture, and mother of the country's handsome, young . Trudeau's family moved to a large house in Rockcliffe Park, Ontario, in 1952 after her father was appointed to the Cabinet, and she attended Rockcliffe Park Public School[14] although they returned to North Vancouver after he lost his re-election bid in 1958. ', 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.'. She had not finished doing drugs or sowing her wild oats. " Pierre Trudeau's and Fidel Castro's paths crossed for the first time in 1970 ," the Globe reports, before explaining the Trudeaus had such a great time on the Caribbean island that " an enduring friendship was . He would be turning 60 when she was barely out of her 20s. Justin Trudeau was born on 25 December 1971. Margaret Trudaeu circa 1977 in New York. CNN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's tribute complimenting Fidel Castro as "remarkable" and a "larger than life leader who served his people" drew criticism and derision.. Alex Kasprak is an investigative journalist and science writer reporting on scientific misinformation, online fraud, and financial crime. But then Justin Trudeau improbably grew up to look like this: Pierre Trudeau, who is 45 inches shorter than both Fidel Castro and Justin Trudeau, So what is all this talk about debunking the claim? Pierre Trudeau was a bachelor before he became Prime Minister in 1968. His just mocks the story and then abruptly states this: Oh, wait. The sons gave him a photo album of his father's historic 1976 trip when he came with young wife Margaret and infant son Michel in towdelighting an enraptured Fidel and charming this island . 26 November 2016. Gratitude. Pierre Trudeau won custody of the children and did not pay any spousal support. En su mensaje, Trudeau expres "profunda pena" despus de conocer "la muerte del presidente que gobern Cuba durante ms tiempo". Harpers Bazaar. There is a long history of The Trudeau family having ties to Fidel Castro dating back to the 1970's. Many have wondered why Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau made, what some consider, over the top remarks about the death of Castro taking into account Castro being a dictator who committed genocide against his own . Why would Pierre Trudeau chose anyone else to be the biological father of his children? 6 August 2013. [46], In 2010, she authored Changing My Mind, a book about her personal experience with bipolar disorder. She was clearly attracted to men in positions of power, even some who were old and unattractive. Of Course Fidel Castro is Justin Trudeaus Dad. He looked like he could beat up any other word leader, much less any competitor for Margaret Trudeaus attention. Margaret Joan Trudeau (ne Sinclair, formerly Kemper; born September 10, 1948) is a Canadian activist. They met when he was 48 and she was 18. 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? The theory is straightforward enough. 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. The list goes on. After Pierre Trudeau's government's near defeat in 1972 where Margaret herself was very uninvolved in the campaign, she decided to become much more active for the 1974 federal election. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. No evidence Castro never travelled to see them in the Caribbean. According to a 2009 Globe and Mail article by Margaret Wente, actress Margot Kidder (Superman, Superman II), classical guitarist Liona Boyd, and actress Kim Cattrall all claimed to have slept with him at some time. Don't forget, Castro was a hero figure for the international Left in the 1970s. Margaret . Federal governments in Western civilizations do not deny urban legends. That is not to say there are no exaggerations and falsehoods supporting the story. 27 November 2016. That being said, the exaggerations and painful avoidance of the storys debunkers are far more suspicious. His death came 20 days before his 81st birthday. This event has been chronicled, along with some purportedly saucy comments, in a book that has been cited by many of the Trudeau-truthers to suggest sexual attraction between Margaret and Fidel. If an infertile old man wanted to have a family, his wife had to do it the old-fashioned way. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus' Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have . 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