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[ 24-05-2001 ]
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[ International Relations ]
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[ Canada ]
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[Trudeau duped naive Canadians
By PAUL JACKSON - Calgary Sun
May 24, 2001
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau once took his sons to Siberia, surveyed a city and the tundra surrounding it, and proclaimed: "This is the place the future is being created."
The city had been built by slave labour and the Soviet Union was at the zenith of its power, with gulags stretching across its empire and half of Europe still under its brutal heel.
Had a leading political figure gone to Nazi Germany in the 1930s and lauded Adolf Hitler's achievements, they would have been hounded into obscurity. Trudeau wasn't even chastised.
In "Prime Ministers from the best to the worst" (May 22), I concluded Trudeau was our worst prime minister in my lifetime, and contended: "He couldn't have done this nation more harm if he had been taking orders directly from Moscow."
Rather than being berated for claiming Trudeau wanted to replace the democratic U.S. as our closest ally with that of the Soviet Union dictatorship, and alluding to him being a closet Marxist-Leninist, I was applauded and asked to tell more.
Well, the secret life of Trudeau may well have to wait until the FBI finally opens all its files on him - some journalists, Sun types like Lubor Zink and Peter Worthington, and former Sun writers such as George Jonas and Barbara Amiel, have already given us insights into the man who idealized such dictators as China's Mao Tse-tung, who butchered between 50 and 80 million of his own people and Cuba's Fidel Castro, who still holds his island nation in an iron grip.
Back in 1947, Trudeau attended the left-wing London School of Economics and declared Marxist professor Harold Laski the "most stimulating and powerful influence" he'd ever encountered.
In 1951, Trudeau resigned his post in the Privy Council Office to travel in Africa and attend a Communist international economic conference in Moscow.
The year 1953 saw him barred from entry into the U.S. because of his Communist affiliations.
Come 1956, he led a Communist delegation to Beijing for a Red victory celebration.
When the RCMP caught 13 Soviet diplomats in a spy ring in 1978, Trudeau not only ordered that they not be expelled, but tried to prevent the treachery being made public.
During his term as prime minister, he slashed Canada's commitment to NATO in half and constantly downgraded our defence budget. Our European allies were appalled, the slavemasters in the Kremlin delighted.
Also during his stint as PM, he declared he wanted Canada to be "the cutting edge of the left" in international affairs. Again, the Communist dictators of that world applauded him.
He spurned Polish Solidarity freedom fighter Lech Walesa and expressed sympathy for Communist gauleiter Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski. He described Soviet dissidents such as Jewish activist Anatoly Shcharansky and the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Andrei Sakharov as "hooligans."
Evidence of Trudeau's dalliance with communism and suspicions over his political allegiances go deeper the closer one looks.
It just piles up and piles up when one peers at Trudeau's record and ponders his utterings and writings.
As incredible as it first seemed, it's now accepted that former Australian prime minister Harold Holt was a spy for Red China.
Was Pierre Trudeau a spy for the Soviet Union?
No. A spy is someone who stealthily steals secrets and ships them to another nation's intelligence services. Trudeau obviously never did that.
Was he an agent of influence - an individual in a position of nudging or changing policies to the advantage of a foreign power - or an alien philosophy? This is the assessment likely held by American intelligence analysts.
Was he a "fellow traveller" basically devoted to the Marxist-Leninist view of the world?
At the very least.
Which, however one may regard this disgraced philosophy, isn't illegal.
Yet, Trudeau did dupe the millions of naive Canadians who fell for his carefully cultivated charade and voted for him.
One day, when Trudeau's life is fully exposed, they'll be both embarrassed and ashamed at their childish fawnings.
Jackson, associate editor of the Sun, can be reached at paul.jackson@cal.sunpub.com
 World Fact Book (CIA)]
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