I WAS WRONG ABOUT JUSTIN TRUDEAU!!!

My previous article "Is JT a child molester?" contained a major error.

Dear Nevermorons,

I HAVE A BIG CORRECTION TO MAKE.

Recently, I posted a piece called Is Justin Trudeau a Child Molester?, in which I investigated the claims made in the following meme.

This article went over to generate a lot of engagements. As of right now, it has over 2.5 thousand views, 200 likes, and 150 comments.

This is one of the most popular things I have ever written, and almost everyone seems willing to believe that JT carried on an inappropriate relationship with a student while working at a private school in Vancouver.

The theory goes that JT’s illicit fling was discovered, and that he was criminally charged, which appears to be documented.

After examining the evidence, I concluded:

I can’t really say with certainty that Justin Trudeau is a child molester. To me, it looks like a clear case of “if there’s smoke, there’s fire”, but we should apply the lessons that we learned from #MeToo and not automatically believe rumours when they’re about people we don’t like. But it’s for sure that they’re covering up something from JT’s past,

There’s only one problem - the picture in that meme is apparently not of a rich tween schoolgirl, but of Sophie Gregoire, the woman JT would go on to marry and have three kids with.

Wow. That photo looks a lot more innocent than the one in the meme, doesn’t it?

Let’s take a look at the two side-by-side.

When I first saw the first photo, I thought this girl looked about eleven, but in the second, clearer photo, she doesn’t really look underage. If you ask me, she could be anywhere from 14 to 19.

Now, I’m still confused by this new information, because Sophie Gregoire was born in 1975. When this post was written in 2020, she would have been 45, meaning that if their first date was really 17 years ago, she would have been 28.

The girl is the photo could be 17, but it seems very unlikely she could be 28. Could this photo date to an earlier time, before the future couple had begun dating?

I checked Wikipedia and learned that Sophie and Justin knew each other going way back.

Grégoire first met Justin Trudeau, the eldest son of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when they were both growing up in Montreal, where Grégoire was a classmate and childhood friend of the youngest Trudeau son, Michel. Grégoire and Trudeau reconnected as adults in June 2003, when they were assigned to co-host a charity ball, and began dating several months later.

A Maclean’s article goes into greater detail:

Originally from Sainte-Adèle, Que., and raised in Montreal's Town of Mount Royal, Grégoire is the only child of a stockbroker and a former nurse. She and Trudeau became acquainted as adults in June 2003 when they were co-hosting the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix ball, a fundraiser for the Starlight Children's Foundation, but Grégoire had known the Trudeau family for years. She'd been a childhood friend and classmate of Trudeau's youngest brother, Michel -- who died in an avalanche in 1998 at the age of 23 -- and has fond memories of playing at the Trudeau family home on Pine Avenue as a girl. "They had a really cool pool with a trapeze and ropes and we could play Tarzan for hours," she says. "We would hide in the closets to have our first kiss."

The night of the Grand Prix ball two years ago, Grégoire reintroduced herself to Trudeau and, as they both giddily recall, they hit it off immediately.

Well, then. Seems like it could be Sophie in that photo after all. Let’s talk a look at some other photos.

Hmm, yeah I guess that could be her. I wonder how tall she is.

Okay, let’s compare her height to JT’s.

Now let’s take another look at the original photo.

Yep, that’s her. Correct me if I’m wrong.

LOOKS LIKE I WAS WRONG, FOLKS!

One of my core beliefs is that people should admit when they were wrong. Everyone makes mistakes, and the best thing I can do is 1) correct my mistake, and 2) be more careful in the future.

I will point out that I still stand by most of what is contained in my original article. Justin Trudeau did indeed permanently leave the teaching profession in the middle of a semester, and there are indeed rumours about him dating from the time when he lived in Vancouver with a man named Christopher Ingvaldson, who was convicted on child porn charges.

Personally, I still have questions about Justin Trudeau and the people that surround him.

For example, some people have claimed that the Pierre Trudeau Foundation uses “known pedophile words and symbols”.

I had no idea about this, but according to the FBI, the following “triangle-inside-a-triangle” icon is a symbol of pedophilia.

Also, there’s the strange fact that two different parents of students at West Point Grey Academy were murdered in gangland shootings while JT and Ingvaldson were teachers there. Given how full Vancouver is of international criminals, I wouldn’t necessarily say that this has anything to do with WPGA specifically, let alone Trudeau.

Because I find it interesting, though, I’ll direct your attention to an article in Maclean’s magazine which covers the murders, both of which seem connected to the Big Circle Boys, a Triad-affiliated Asian crime syndicate which is highly active in B.C.

Until last month, parents at West Point Grey Academy, an elite Vancouver private school, no doubt thought they were tucking their children far from the scourge of drugs, gangs and violence. Point Grey, the premier’s riding, is one of the city’s toniest neighbourhoods; the academy’s junior school, where parents earn an average of $149,000, has been ranked as B.C.’s top elementary school for two years running by the Fraser Institute. When he still hated the limelight, Liberal scion Justin Trudeau was “everyone’s favourite teacher” there, according to alumnus Tyler Friesen. (After father Pierre’s death, students ringed the flagpole with red roses.) Trudeau Jr. taught French and drama at the senior school, where tuition can run north of $21,000.

Then, last month, the five-, seven- and 13-year-old children of Betty “the Loan Shark” Yan quietly exited the school for good. Four days earlier, their mother, a well-known Chinese underworld figure, had been found, shortly after 4:20 a.m., slumped over the steering wheel of her grey, late-model Mercedes outside the Canadian Chinese Chess Society, a suspected illegal gambling den in Richmond. Yan had planned to return home later that morning to drive the children—she called the youngest “mei mei,” Cantonese for “my little one”—to school.

Yan, a pretty, petite, well-manicured 39-year-old, was bubbly and chatty—“almost aggressively so,” says her close friend Jin-Yun Chen. She had “the Birkin bag, the Chanel bag, brand-name sunglasses.” Even her T-shirts were Versace. Home was a “very large, very beautiful,” Sopranos-style suburban beige brick house with a pillared entrance and three-car garage in Richmond, says local prosecutor Helen James, who attended an end-of-year party Yan hosted last June for West Point Grey’s kindergarten class. James’s son, who was in the same class as Yan’s boy, had visited the house on play dates. The party unfolded amid the jumble of marble and ornate, gilded furniture—Yan’s decorating style leaned toward “anything expensive,” says Chen, who’d chummed up to her two years earlier, when she joined the school community. “Louis XIV, modern—whatever.”

Hanging on one wall was a framed photograph of West Point Grey, signed by founding headmaster Clive Austin, thanking Yan for her generous contributions, says James; one of the other moms at the party had, with a raised brow, pointed it out to her, she adds. Chen says Yan was a big deal at West Point Grey. “When Betty dropped the kids off in the morning, it was a hug, kiss on the cheek, high-five or a pat on the back for the kids” from the headmaster, she says. “That’s how he treats the major families.”

Since Yan’s shooting death, amid what appears to have been the end days of Vancouver’s four-month-old gang war, the school, known for its top-notch debating squad, has been swamped by calls and emails from upset parents, including some legitimately concerned their kids had been exposed to danger. According to the RCMP, Yan had used her boy and two girls as human shields when she feared a hit on her life—effectively putting the lives of the entire student body at risk, says a recent graduate, Nicole Jinn, whose brother attends Grade 4 there. The school declined to be interviewed by Maclean’s; in a terse email, Nancy Spooner, the crisis consultant hired to deal with the scandal, said the Yan children had “not been expelled.” (On a Web comment board, Yan’s 13-year-old daughter wrote that she’d been “kicked out” of her school.)

That Spooner has been hounded by media should come as no surprise, says James. This is the school’s second dead gangster. Two years ago, Hong Chao “Raymond” Huang was shot to death in front of his yellow mansion in Vancouver’s exclusive Shaughnessy neighbourhood; his 10-year-old daughter, a West Point Grey student—who, according to Chen, also quietly exited the school—phoned in the hit to police. A leader with the Big Circle Boys, whose network of small cells span the globe, Huang was believed to be a major player in the trade of heroin and synthetic drugs and had criminal links to Toronto, the U.S., Australia, Hong Kong and China.

Yan, who was from China’s Guangdong province, entered Canada as a refugee via Bangkok in the late 1980s and ended up running what police call a “ruthless loan-sharking operation.” (Known to break into debtors’ houses when they didn’t pay, she would steal anything from furniture to citizenship cards and passports.) Police say she was present at the assassinations of underworld figures Tommy Wong and “Pretty Boy” Meng; in another incident, during a double homicide in a Vancouver restaurant, she was playing mah-jong with the wife of one of those hit.

“It defies the popular image, but many of the most successful criminals in the country don’t have a record. They play golf at $400 a pop, and sail expensive boats,” says criminologist John Martin of the University College of the Fraser Valley. After a year of coffee dates and dim sum lunches, Chen had the gnawing sense “things weren’t quite right.” Perhaps it was the strange phone calls Yan received, the four terrifying bulldogs—“Betty’s attack dogs”—who would leap at her car, barking, teeth bared, whenever Chen pulled up to the house, or the “evasive” answers to questions about the nature of her business. In a carefully drafted letter, the school has said it will review issues relating to the “admission to and composition of the school community.”

Anyway, at the end of the day, Justin Trudeau seems to have been a mostly normal rich kid prior to entering politics. If he showed signs of psychopathy, sociopathy, sadism, or another major psychological cause for concern, I am unaware of them.

Personally, I think that JT is a politician, and that politicians are, for the most part, puppets. Part of the reason that I chose to write about him was because I know that there’s a demand for celebrity gossip.

Anyway, Nevermore Media is committed to bringing you the highest-quality journalism that we can, and I apologize for sharing false misleading information.

That said, WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED AT WEST POINT GREY ACADEMY! By no means have I concluded that JT is innocent. I assume that he left his teaching position because of a scandal, which likely involved serious criminal charges.

That said, I have no conclusive proof that Justin Trudeau is guilty of any sexual offence. What we have boils down to a lot of speculation and conjecture.

IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION THAT COULD HELP US GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS, PLEASE WRITE ME AT ANTONBUECKERT@PROTONMAIL.COM!

Even if the photo we have isn’t of Ali Samie, that doesn’t mean that Ali Samie doesn’t exist.

I am sticking with a modified version of my original position: IF THERE’S (ENOUGH) SMOKE, THERE’S (PROBABLY) FIRE.

Please accept my apology for providing misleading information.

Sincerely,

Crow Qu’appelle