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there was a dig on Sacha Trudeau last night, Justin Trudeau's brother, so looked into the youngest Trudeau brother, Michel.
Born October 2, 1975. Died November 13, 1998
Visited by Castro
Michel Trudeau was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 2nd October 1975. He was named after his paternal grandfather. He was the youngest of the three Trudeau sons born to Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau. Michel, as a four months old kid was visited by former Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, when his parents were on a trip to Cuba. Castro nicknamed him Miche. Michel always was very ‘kind and adventurous’ one of all her children, as recalled by his mother.
Killed in avalanche at age 23; BODY NEVER FOUND
Michel had just started working at a Mountain Resort in Rossland, British Columbia, but again, his adventures with his friends had become a part of his life, and whenever he found the time, he would embark on trips with them. On one such trip, this time in the Kokanee Glacier Park on 13th November 1998 with three of his friends, Michel embarked on a skiing trip. All four of them were having the time of their lives until the avalanche formed up and as brutish a force of nature that it is, it swept away Michel and separated him from his friends and he fell in the freezing Kokanee Lake.
Michel tried his best to reach the shore, but the freezing lake wouldn’t let him give his 100 percent and eventually, after a lot of struggle, Michel gave up. His friends found themselves unable to help him and Michel drowned into the lake. One other of his friends was also swept away in the lake, but he managed to swim to the shore.
When the Trudeau family came to know of it, they were emotionally destroyed, and extensive search was initiated to locate the body, but all the efforts went in vain due to the extremely high altitude of the terrain on and very little days of open water into the frozen lake. A year later, the Trudeau family called off the search for Michel and accepted with bitter hearts, that Michel was no more with them.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/michel-trudeau-10805.php
Michel Trudeau talked of faith before death
While most remember him as the son of a prime minister, Dennis Walker remembers him as a young man wrestling with his faith.
The two met in July under unusual circumstances in Walker's hometown of Portage la Prairie, a small city along the Trans-Canada highway.
Four months later, witnesses who had been wilderness skiing with Michel in B.C. said the avalanche swept him 40 metres out in the glacial lake, wearing a 20-kilogram pack, skis and hiking gear. He struggled for some time, called for help, then disappeared. The lake froze over before divers could recover the body.
https://www.christianweek.org/michel-trudeau-talked-of-faith-before-death/
Michel Trudeau's life, death recalled with pain and pride
The avalanche pushed him into the Kokanee Lake in eastern British Columbia. Weighed down with skis and hiking equipment, Mr. Trudeau was unable to make it back to shore and his friends were unable to save him. A search last summer after the ice melted failed to find his body.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/michel-trudeaus-life-death-recalled-with-pain-and-pride/article4159181/
Me and Michel Trudeau: The story of two drug busts
Six months before Michel Trudeau’s death 20 years ago during an avalanche in the Kokanee Mountain range of British Columbia, he was apparently in a serious car accident on his way home to Montreal.
As the investigating cops helped the 23-year-old Trudeau gather up his belongings that had been scattered along the roadside, they came across a couple of marijuana joints in a Sucrets can.
Simple pot possession back then was still severely frowned upon by law enforcement, and so young Michel Trudeau, like hundreds of others on any given day in 1998, was busted
“(My father Pierre) was very confident that we were able to make those charges go away,” our PM told a small town hall organized by Vice Media. “We were able to do that because we had the resources, my dad had a couple of connections and we were confident that my little brother was not going to be saddled with a criminal record for life.”
And, poof, just like that, the charges disappeared and the catalyst for Trudeau to legalize marijuana was supposedly born.
https://torontosun.com/2017/04/25/me-and-michel-trudeau-the-story-of-two-drug-busts/wcm/6074fbaa-1890-418e-8af7-a9462c06788f
Trudeau says his father used connections to help brother Michel avoid criminal record after pot charge
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/04/24/pierre-trudeau-helped-his-son-michel-avoid-criminal-record-after-pot-charge.html