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u/LoicyT
4 years ago
Snopes made a mistake regarding Trudeau's April 1971 movements
snopes.com
The first couple made a big impression at a local sugaring event, for example, on March 27, and the press (in a testament to the level of scrutiny the prime minister’s new wife received) noted that Margaret did not travel with Pierre on an April trip to the Niagara region:
Included is an image of a 2 April 1971 article from The Brandon Sun.
For the remainder of April, Pierre was busy with governing, as attested to by logs of the Canadian House of Commons, making unlikely that his work would take the couple anywhere near Havana.
This "remainder of April" (which would be April 3-30) statement is incorrect. I think Snopes should publish a retraction here. Two articles in The Ottawa Journal from that month document that Pierre and Margaret vacationed in the Carribean from April 8th to April 18th.
13 April 1971 newspapers.com
Trudeau and his wife left here Monday by chartered plane on a quick sidetrip to an unidentified nearby island. They arrived here Thursday on a brief "second honeymoon,"
16 April 1971 newspapers.com
Trudeau lunched privately Thursday with Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister, Dr. Eric Williams. Trudeau flew in from Tobago, the sister island of Trinidad, where he has been holidaying with his wife since Tuesday. Shortly after his luncheon engagement, Trudeau took a return plane to Tobago to rejoin his wife, Margaret. The Canadian high commission said it was in not in a position to say when the prime minister and his wife would leave Tobago. "We know he has to be back in Ottawa on April 18," a commission spokesman said. The Trudeaus already have visited Barbados and spent a day swimming off Bequia, a tiny island in the Grenadines, and nearby islets when they visited St. Vincent Monday.
April 13 was a Tuesday. This means the chartered plane trip was on April 12, and they arrived in Bridgetown on April 8.
April 16 was a Friday, so it was April 15 when Justin Pierre left Margaret alone in Tobago when he visited Trinidad, and they had arrived in Tobago on April 13.
The snopes article also lists:
Fidel Castro, for his part, was in Cuba during this conception window.
In terms of public appearances, Castro gave a address to attendees of the “first education and culture congress” on 1 April 1971.
On 19 April, he gave a defiantly anti-American speech that commemorated the 10th anniversary of the defeat of the United States-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion.
Snopes has not account for Castro's location from April 2-18. Will it? This is the very period during which Margaret was in various Carribean islands east of Cuba.
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