Each week Local will present New World University, a column that breaks down and discusses popular conspiracy theories.

Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro’s Son

Theory: Rumor has it that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not the son of former PM Pierre Trudeau, but is instead the illegitimate son of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro instead. Apparently, Margaret Trudeau visited Cuba about nine months before Justin was born, had a tryst with Castro, and went back to Canada to give birth to Justin.

Supposedly the Castros knew, with one of Castro’s sons allegedly referring to Justin as his brother in his suicide note saying that Fidel was “always comparing me unfavorably with Justin…dismissing my achievements in comparison to his success in Canada…But what was I to do? I am Cuban. My brother is Canadian. If he was born and raised in Cuba, he would have lived in our father’s shadow forever just like me.”

And to top it off Trudeau did praise Castro after his death in an eyebrow raising speech, and the two definitely share a strong resemblance.

How it Started: I believe it started very recently when this article was published on YourNewsWire.com on February 10.

Real or fake: It’s fake, but I wish it were real. After the above mentioned article was published, news sites were very quick to respond, all of them disproving the theory. Fact-checkers pointed out that Justin was born nine months after his parents’ (Pierre & Margaret that is) honeymoon and that Margaret didn’t visit Cuba for the first time until four years after Justin was born. Cuban media also has yet to mention a suicide note in the case of Castro’s (Cuban) son.

Okay, so it’s not real, but I mean that resemblance is just downright eerie. Also wouldn’t it be kind of funny if it was real? No, just me? Okay.