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The Trudeau’s family fortune, and the foundation for Justin Trudeau’s eventual trust fund which affords him his life of admitted white “privilege,” began in 1934 when Charles-Emile Trudeau, son of a semi-literate farmer, known to his friends as “Charley,” eventual father of one PM and grandfather of another, sold his Montreal-area gas stations to the big boys of Imperial Oil.

Those gas stations, bolstered over the years by an innovative loyalty program that boasted some 15,000 members, sold for the tidy sum of $1 million.

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It was not a bad payday.

For perspective, $1 million in 1934 would be equal to $18.7 million in 2018 money, and that’s just with inflation and compound interest, and lazily sitting in a bank.

Its value today — what with shrewd investments by high-end accountants, stock brokers, money managers and lawyers — is no doubt over the moon.

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Obviously it pays to have the right lineage.