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Paul Fromm, Director of the Canadain Association for Freedom of Expression gloats with talk show host Brian Ruhe about How Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stuck his foot in his mouth by overpraisingFidel Castro in his eulogy. Brian and Paul discuss the theory that Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro!<\/p>\n

Below is a FAIR USE of an article by PAUL WELLS, National Affairs, Tues., Nov. 29, 2016, at:
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I want to talk about the rest of Canada\u2019s weird, hesitant relationship with Cuba. But first, since I\u2019m just getting to it now, a few words about Justin Trudeau and Fidel Castro.<\/p>\n

We haven\u2019t seen Justin Trudeau mourn like this since his dad died. In expressing his \u201cdeep sorrow\u201d at the death of Castro, a \u201clarger than life\u201d figure whom Trudeau lauded as \u201ca legendary orator\u201d \u2014<\/p>\n

Sorry, let\u2019s just pause right there. Legendary orator? On Sept. 26, 1960, Castro addressed the United Nations General Assembly for four and a half hours, a record unchallenged to this day in the most boring room on earth. In 1998 in Havana, he spoke for seven and a half hours. Calling Castro a great orator is like calling porn legend Ron Jeremy a romantic: it confuses volume with quality.<\/p>\n

Onward. Trudeau lauded Castro\u2019s \u201ctremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people,\u201d whose speech and dietary protein Castro rationed, by law, for decades. I guess it was tough love.<\/p>\n

To be sure, Trudeau balanced his praise with criticism. \u201cDuring Castro\u2019s rule, thousands of Cubans were incarcerated in abysmal prisons, thousands more were harassed and intimidated, and entire generations were denied basic political freedoms,\u201d the prime minister wrote. Just kidding! No, that last quote isn\u2019t from Justin Trudeau at all. It\u2019s from Human Rights Watch. As for the PM, in a communiqu\u00e9 overflowing with praise for Castro, he could find room for only one word about the Cuban dictator\u2019s human rights record: \u201ccontroversial.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nor can the PM\u2019s defenders long sustain the notion that his statement must have been penned by some careless lackey in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office. No, the communiqu\u00e9 is too solidly in line with the entire Trudeau family\u2019s record on the man to be anything but an honest reflection of Justin Trudeau\u2019s thought.<\/p>\n

Castro was a pallbearer at Pierre Trudeau\u2019s funeral. The PM\u2019s brother Alexandre Trudeau wrote in this newspaper a decade ago that Castro was \u201csomething of a superman,\u201d whose \u201cintellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found.\u201d Alexandre Trudeau wrote that he \u201cgrew up knowing that Fidel Castro had a special place among my family\u2019s friends,\u201d even if ordinary Cubans \u201cdo occasionally complain, often as an adolescent might complain about a too strict and demanding father.\u201d<\/p>\n

One notes family similarities in prose style.<\/p>\n

Justin Trudeau is defending the statement he made following the death of former Cuban president Fidel Castro. The prime minister says he never shies away from addressing human rights issues.(THE CANADIAN PRESS)
\nSo a prime minister who claims to prize evidence-based policy was caught putting family connections ahead of the exhaustively documented abuses of a man whose death marks a crucial step in his own people\u2019s long-delayed march toward freedom.<\/p>\n

But the rest of us \u2014 we cold and bashful Canadians \u2014 will probably continue to watch Cuba as we have for decades, unsure or divided in our response to events in the land Fidel Castro leaves behind.<\/p>\n

Exhibit A in the theatre of ambivalence is Justin Trudeau\u2019s predecessor. Stephen Harper met Raul Castro, Fidel\u2019s brother and still the president of Cuba, only 19 months ago, attending what would be Harper\u2019s last Summit of the Americas in Panama City. The two men sat smiling awkwardly at each other in hard-backed chairs next to a little round table.<\/p>\n

Probably most Canadians not named Trudeau have long known that Cubans did not have the government Canadians would want for them \u2014 and, indeed, not the government Cubans would choose, were they granted the freedom to change their minds about the revolution. But that knowledge doesn\u2019t tell us which mix of engagement and isolation is wisest.<\/p>\n

Most Canadian leaders have fallen back on a policy of doing a little less than the Americans. It\u2019s a deeply unsatisfying policy. John Diefenbaker resisted putting Canadian forces on a war footing during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Harper let Obama decide on a change in stance, providing only conference facilities and plausible deniability.<\/p>\n

Having blown some political capital by saying what he thinks, Trudeau is now going to skip Fidel Castro\u2019s funeral. It\u2019s a retreat to ambivalence dictated by a public outcry that must have astonished the prime minister, who grew up with a photo of Fidel Castro in his family\u2019s home and thought, perhaps, that everybody does.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Wells is a national affairs writer. His column usually appears Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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