Justin Trudeau’s recent reaction to deny interference in the Chinese election was shocking. It wasn’t the first time the latter had sparked controversy about China. In 2013, he expressed his “admiration” because “their dictatorial regime allows them to transform their economy on the fly”!
Alexandre Trudeau, his brother, wrote a book entitled Un barbare en Chine nouvelle. The smug pamphlet was a nod to a work written by his father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, and Jacques Hébert, Deux Innocents en Chine Rouge, originally published in 1961, then in 2007 with a foreword by Alexandre.
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During the “Great Leap Forward” in 1958, workers spend the night in a steel production facility.
We celebrate Mao’s victory
In the fall of 1960, the innocent duo traveled to China at the invitation of the government. Trudeau is in Beijing on October 1st. In Tiananmen Square he attends the anniversary of the communist victory in the Civil War, an event that produced one of the worst dictatorships in history, comparable to the USSR or Hitler’s Germany. Trudeau then mingles with the crowd and celebrates into the next day. He then meets Mao, a man who, according to him and Hébert, exudes a certain wisdom.
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Mao in 1959
“The Yellow Peril, you speak,” they write to poke fun at what would constitute an irrational fear, a phobia, to use today’s words. China would indeed be a development model. It also helps poorer countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa. The two intellectuals also believe that defending Taiwan against this progressive China is not worthwhile.
The journey takes place during the worst famine in history, during the “great leap forward,” a policy praised by the two innocents. In order to produce more steel and industrialize his country, Mao drove millions of peasants from their ancestral lands.
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Trudeau with his wife Margaret in China in 1973. Margaret is seven months pregnant with her son Alexander.
After replacing her name with a number, the communists sent her to newly established labor camps. This modern slavery increased steel production so much that it became unusable. It also caused a dramatic drop in agricultural production and the deaths of 38 million people, according to Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, who wrote a masterful biography of the “great helmsman.”
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Mao Zedong with Stalin in 1949.
They also attack Trudeau, one of Mao’s useful idiots, just like Jean-Paul Sartre or Simone de Beauvoir. These intellectuals played into Maoist propaganda.
Meanwhile, in the British colony of Hong Kong, there were thousands of refugees who were already witnessing the horrors of the “Great Leap Forward.”
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Trudeau with Mao in 1973.
cultural revolution
Not satisfied with this trip, Trudeau made it again in 1973, when he was in power. This time China is in the midst of a “Cultural Revolution,” a purge led by Mao’s fanatical militia, the “Red Guards.” The remnants of “bourgeois culture” are being destroyed, books burned, teachers arrested, executed, schools destroyed. Millions died and Trudeau, as Prime Minister, knew about it. However, during his meeting with Mao, he did not say a word about the situation to his Chinese interlocutors. Is it any wonder, knowing that he once said that Stalin’s USSR was going in the right direction?
His complacency for Communism was evident throughout his life. At the same time, he has always presented his political commitment from the perspective of defending rights and freedoms.
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The Red Guards in Shanghai in 1967.
It was in this spirit that he registered his struggle against Duplessis, a man who, for Trudeau, was worse than Mao.
Beginning in 1977, he attacked Bill 101, which he believed violated Anglo-Quebec rights. In 1988, Bill 101 was invalidated thanks to the charter it imposed on us. When Robert Bourassa used the disregard clause to preserve her, Trudeau accused him of violating rights. He took the opportunity to launch his fatwa against the Meech Lake Agreement.
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Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert in China in 1960.
The special society clause would allow Quebec to violate other fundamental freedoms.
This is how Trudeau denigrated Quebec his entire life. At the same time, he made a pact with a dictator guilty of crimes against humanity!
Today, when we juxtapose Justin Trudeau’s speech on Law 21 and his attitude towards China, we see how striking the parallel with his father is.
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