The War Room

TRUDEAU, CITIZEN OF LIES

I remember when my brother (the one still alive) first got to vote in an election back in '84. He was a rebellious teenager and wanted to upset my dad who, as the son of Italian immigrants was a die hard Liberal. My brother went out to vote and when my dad asked him who he voted for, my brother said, Brian Mulroney.

Now my brother is no conservative and has recently positioned himself somewhere to the left of Jack Layton.

But back in '84, his goal was to upset my dad...and it worked. My mother even voted Liberal up until a few years ago when I started explaining things to her.

Point is, even though Trudeau did not run in '84, that is who my dad was voting for when he went in the booth. Like many Italian immigrants...oh hell, most of 'em, they came to Canada with dreams and because of much white Protestant bigotry, found it difficult to assimilate.

I understand on the surface why Trudeau is loved by many immigrants and why they revere him.

But what I do not understand is the white-washing of history that turned him into a saint of the secular left. Much of that legacy is built on lies. Yes, Trudeau helped make Canada more tolerant to immigrants, but he also exploited them by making Canada a country that was tolerant to their skin colour, not their values. That exploitation is what remains in the Liberal Party today.

I am glad Brian Mulroney is trying to correct the record. Trudeau is often called a citizen of the world. That he was. He was a friend to everyone.

Communists, dictators, fascists...Trudeau saw them all as just different philosophies towards equality. He protested Canada's entry into WWII against The National Socialists and was a dear friend of Fidel Castro who was a pall-bearer at his funeral.

"Trudeau and Castro took to each other from their first meeting in Cuba in 1976, which broke Castro's isolation and ruffled U.S. feathers. The two leaders saw each other regularly until well after Trudeau had left politics.

Mark Entwistle, Canadian ambassador to Cuba between 1993 and 1997, remembered sitting at the dinner table with the two men as they talked the nights away -- "intellectual soul mates, definitely."

Trudeau's legacy is a legacy of lies. Trudeau's belief in 'equality' and 'The Charter' was actually based on his belief that communism was a viable system. He knew with America to our south, he could never make Canada a communist, atheist nation, so instead he gradually instilled a value system in us that drove us further and further left.

And it has worked. Like a charm.

Yet, Trudeau was not an evil man. He was just a greatly simplistic and facile one who could not understand the philosophical contradictions in communism. Like many of his generation, he did not understand the evil committed by the National Socialists. He could not comprehend the genocide of Stalin or the horrors of Mao.

How could he? They preached love and equality, did they not?

His legacy is one of relativism and bowing at the altar of secularism.

For this, his golden boy reputation should be tarnished. His current defenders do not like the truth getting out because it changes the landscape. Good on Mulroney for speaking it.

I hope to hear more of Trudeau. He was everything I do not like in a politician; vapid, shallow, amoral and simplistic.

I guess with a reputation like that, it makes sense he was Canada's first rock star.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 9:58 AM