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. 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Trudeau had difficulty adjusting to her new position. He brought his wife. 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. Marisha Pessl. They got married when he was 53 and she was 23. Trudeau with husband Pierre Trudeau . She attended Hamilton Junior Secondary School and Delbrook Senior Secondary School in North Vancouver. Justin was born December 25, 1971, nine months after Pierre and Margarets honeymoon in British Columbia and long before the couple travelled to Cuba. Justin Trudeau was born 8 1/2 months later. 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. He outlived two Kennedy brothers behind those attempts. The Trudeaus were indeed close to Fidel Castro, who once described Pierre Trudeau as a close friend and an extraordinary figure. Margaret Trudeau was also open in her later writings about her various past affairs. They are wonderful people and I think this is an opportunity for them to really evolve as they need to., Trudeau said the social change they saw in Cuba was overwhelming, but the regime has also been extraordinarily repressive., I hope that is over for the Cuban people.. 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. That is strange for authors who claim to have the truth on their sides. He outlived two Kennedy brothers behind those attempts. Kasprak omits discussions of the Trudeaus' Spring 1971 vacation and then relies on its own omission to say Margaret Trudeau could not have . Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. During the campaign, she was involved, but avoided campaigning in public as the Harper campaign's main attack line against Justin was "Just Not Ready" and feared they would suggest her son was "so unready he needs his mummy. Why would Pierre Trudeau chose anyone else to be the biological father of his children? I keep pretty private. He beat the Americans in an armed invasion by personally commanding the battle in a tank. 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. Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas day, 1971. According to Wikipedia, they visited one island they declined to disclose. Their marriage surprised Canada because Pierre had been a lifelong playboy with no wife or children. A local station master, in charge of signaling, has been arrested. CDC Admits It Has No Data to Support Recommending COVID-19 Booster Shots for 12- to 49-Year-Olds, FBI director says covid-19 most likely originated from lab incident. Cutting to a CBS News segment from 2017, the Tucker Carlsons audience was treated to an analysis of the sexual tension between Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro, with Margaret quoted as describing Fidel as the sexiest man she had ever metbefore admitting that she spent the whole trip to Cuba flirting with the communist despot. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail confirms that Pierre and Margaret Trudeau became close friends with Fidel Castro. Second, the Trudeaus adored Castro. 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. 2023 Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. All rights reserved. Fidel Castro was immediately taken with four-month-old Michel when he arrived with his parents in 1976, Margaret Trudeau remembers. He evidently wanted a family because that is exactly what he started. Come on. He would be turning 60 when she was barely out of her 20s. Justin was born December 25, 1971, nine months after Pierre and Margarets honeymoon in British Columbia and long before the couple travelled to Cuba. 1976 Margaret Trudeau with both arms around Fidel Castro still wearing the dress in which they first officially met. Initially, she brought her six-month-old son Sasha on the trail with her, and one veteran reporter said, "It's the first campaign plane for the first thing off is a crib and a diaper bag." [12] Trudeau explored her mother's family's roots in Singapore during an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?. Pierre Trudeau slept around too. His just mocks the story and then abruptly states this: Oh, wait. From the photos is seems obvious she was attracted to him. "Castro and Trudeau: A Famous, But Also Fraught Friendship" In order for his father to be Fidel Castro, his mother would have to be . Ottawa police are looking for witnesses and dash-camera footage after a 58-year-old man died of the injuries he suffered in a two-vehicle crash on Fallowfield Road Friday evening. They demonstrated a striking level of familiarity before even getting off the tarmac of their 1976 trip. Second, the Trudeaus adored Castro. 1st leaked video of firefight with Reptilians; what the White Hats are really up to? Margaret was a 23-year-old wild child who liked doing it the old-fashioned way. Marisa Tomei. Justin's supposed father Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) the former Canadian Prime Minister who legalized abortion and who brought socialist medicine to Canada was good friends with Fidel Castro. Justin Trudeau was born on Christmas day, 1971. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Come on. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation," said Justin Trudeau in 2016. The Trudeaus introduced Castro to their children. The article states that the Trudeaus were visiting an unidentified island in the Caribbean and wanted the press to give them privacy: To be clear: they disclosed all the other locations they visited but asked the press for privacy when they went to the unidentified island. I think it is about time.. [1] She married Pierre Trudeau, the 15th prime minister of Canada, in 1971; three years after he became prime minister. By means of a rough estimate, we note that a 2013 study published in the journal Human Reproduction used data from 130 pregnancies to investigate the range of different pregnancy lengths from conception to birth (gestation) and reported a range of from 247 to 284 days: It is extremely unlikely that Justins birth fell outside of that gestational range, meaning that Castroand Margaret Trudeau would have to have conceived their secret love-child between March 16th and April 22nd, 1971. 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.' Trudeau resented her husband's constant work-related absences, and was forced to raise her three young sons largely by herself. [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. [13] Acclaimed British harpsichordist, Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, and Hawaiian settler, Edward William Purvis, according to popular belief, was the namesake of the ukulele, are Margaret Trudeau's first cousins, three times-removed. This is the part about which 'debunkers' intentionally mislead readers. 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.. Later, she left her sons with her parents in North Vancouver while campaigning. It was very kind of him, she said of Castros offer. In some of the photos of Pierre Trudeau's closely followed 1976 trip to Cuba with Margaret and four-month-old Michel, Fidel Castro had a telltale stain on the front of his uniform, she remembers . Margaret Trudeau and Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba, nine months before Justin was born. She smuggled drugs in the Prime Ministers official government luggage. I am very proud that Canada helped facilitate this, we have long, trusted ties, she said. The 32-year-old Mrs. Trudeau was last reported living with Ottawa businessman Jimmy Johnson who runs a furniture store. Perhaps the strangestdenialcomes from the Canadian government itself. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. ADVERTISEMENT No evidence Castro never travelled to see them in the Caribbean. Margaret was a 23-year-old wild child who liked doing it the old-fashioned way. Nobody knows if Pierre objected. 5 March 1971. Early in 1976, Fidel Castro speaking to Margaret, according to page 317 of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 by John English. In 2000, Castro made a rare appearance out of Cuba to attend Pierres funeral in Canada. He forcefully deposed a brutal dictator with a band of rag-tag rebels. This material may not be reproduced without permission. After all it could have been Pierres idea. [46], In 2010, she authored Changing My Mind, a book about her personal experience with bipolar disorder. Anotherwebsitegives a devastatingly compelling argument in favor of the story before sabotaging all its credibility by claiming Margaret Trudeaus family were members of the Illuminati. And when Castro died, Justin Trudeau was the only leader of the Western World to give him an overwhelmingly positive eulogy without addressing his misdeeds. 8 March 1971. Each debunker makes a bold claim and then avoids the very story they claim to debunk. I can't in all truth do that,' she said, adding her consumption of drugs led her to become 'a manic depressive. Kennedy later denied any romantic involvement with Mrs. Trudeau. "Trudeau Weds in Canada." They met when he was 48 and she was 18. Trudeau said Castro had wanted them to send Michel back to Cuba when he was seven to attend pioneer camp for children, something the family often teased Michel about. Comments may take up to an hour for moderation before appearing on the site. Kuczynski, Alex. New York, NY: Margaret Trudeau, wife of Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, does some fancy stepping at Studio 54, a New York City disco, during. Pierre Trudeau was cuckolded by Fidel Castro on one of his many trips to Cuba with his wife Margaret, and Justin is one of Castro's many . They divorced in 1984, during his final months in office. Margaret Trudeau was a partier who unquestionably had sex with men while married to Pierre. Don't forget, Castro was a hero figure for the international Left in the 1970s. Why would anyone in Canadian government be so sensitive to a mere internet rumor? A suicide note left by Fidel Castro's eldest son, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, allegedly confirmed this. Suffice it to say, he endeavored to have sex with two new women every day and sent aides to fetch them. It is a fact the Trudeaus were swingers. The Trudeaus don't meet Fidel until 1976, when Justin was five. What a fabulous place, the people are filled with life and music and happy in spite of very difficult times. [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. Trudeau on the French Riviera filming The Guardian Angel with Jean-Luc Fritz (second from left), 1978. 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