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The surprising life of Justin Trudeau's party-loving mom
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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.
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… her exploits made all sorts of salacious headlines back in the day. Some even speculated that Justin Trudeau wasn't Pierre Trudeau’s son but the love child of a well-known international figure.
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… born in Vancouver in 1948. Her father was Liberal politician James Sinclair, who served as a member of parliament for 18 [=666=] years. Her relationship with the Liberal Party started at a young age indeed!
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18-year-old [666] Margaret met then-Minister of Justice Pierre Trudeau while vacationing in Tahiti. The elder Trudeau was almost30 years her seniorand, by all accounts, became enthralled with theyoung flower child.
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… Trudeau and Sinclair kept the relationship private. He became Prime Minister in 1968 and the two married in 1971. The public only really learned about Margaret when the press announced the couple was on their honeymoon in theCaribbean.
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Margaret Trudeau worked to be more than Mrs. Pierre Trudeau from the get-go. The twenty-something girl with a hippy-like air about her injected new energy into Canadian politics…
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The top Liberal Party organizers at the time considered Margaret an important campaign asset and would send her to hotly contested constituencies, generally with positive results.
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