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While the Trudeaus did indeed develop an unusually cozy relationship with the Cuban dictator, Justin Trudeau was already toilet-trained by the time his mother, Margaret Trudeau, first met Castro in 1976.

“Their biographies just don’t intersect at all,” said Wright.

As has been painstakingly pointed out by the fact-checking site Snopes.com, Trudeau’s December 25, 1971 birthday means that he would have been conceived between March 16 and April 22, 1971.

Margaret and Pierre were secretly married on March 4, 1971, after which Pierre spent March and April in Ottawa on official business. Here, for instance, is Trudeau answering a House of Commons question about pipelines on the earliest possible day that Justin could have been conceived.

Meanwhile, any personal contact between Castro and the Trudeaus was still years away. By early 1971, the only real contact between the prime minister’s office and Cuba had been a 1970 exchange of letters during the October Crisis to arrange the exile of FLQ terrorists.

The spear-fishing trips, the “Viva Castro!” speeches, the glowing descriptions in Margaret and Pierre’s autobiographies; those would all come following Pierre and Margaret Trudeau’s first meeting with Castro in 1976.

Thus, the only feasible way Castro could have fathered Justin Trudeau is if a 22-year-old Margaret Trudeau slipped away from her new husband in order to stage an unprotected tryst with a random communist leader she had never met.