The Trudeau’s seem to be motivated by the same kind of blame-the-West mindset and obsession with centralized organizational power that animates those who support Communist regimes.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau visited China multiple times – even before becoming Prime Minister.
He visited China at a time when the world was outraged over horrific atrocities like the ‘Great Leap Forward,’ a famine deliberately induced by Communist central planning and which caused between 15-55 MILLION deaths.
As Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau remained a big fan and supporter of the Chinese Communist Party.
It would seem that attitude was passed on to his children.
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau – who will be testifying this week regarding the Trudeau Foundation’s links to China – has been to China over 10 times.
This obsession with China – and the way in which Alexandre Trudeau discusses the country – has led some to question whether he is an “apologist” for the Chinese Communist Party.
Speaking to Ai Weiwei in 2008, he praised the “unity and organizational power” of the CCP:
“Is Sacha Trudeau, perhaps, an apologist for the Communist Party of China? He openly discusses the question in the book. He doesn’t believe China “could have come so far so quickly without the unity and organizational power” the CPC has provided. “The Chinese story, especially the recent one over the last 30-40 years, is perhaps the greatest success story in human history, in terms of the amount of wealth created.” However, when he thinks of the concentration of power of China’s current leader, Xi Jinping, he asks: “Will Xi’s personal ambition result in an even more repressive China?” In that scenario one is left asking: What of Ai? What price will he have to pay for his (dis) honesty?”
Now, you’ll note that this is a key way that Chinese Communist Party supporters or ‘apologists’ frame things: They give all the credit for China’s economic growth to the Chinese Communist Party, even though the country only surged economically when the role of government in the economy was reduced. After Mao, the country opened up economically – and became a bit less repressive politically. This unleashed the long-suppressed potential of the Chinese People. So why would the Chinese Communist Party get credit for that?
Further, notice how the things the Chinese Communist Party actually did deliberately inflict – like famines that killed tens of millions of people – gets just a cursory discussion and doesn’t lead to any broader reflection on the system itself.
This is what Alexandre Trudeau said in another interview:
“The whole of China is the greatest human success story ever, in my view, in terms of wealth creation. No country has moved so fast…considering the problems China has, land scarcity, food insufficiencies, water problems, no oil. They’ve done in 30 years what took the West 200 years, in terms of material freedoms…[though] not harmoniously, I was at [the University of Toronto] with some academics, they were saying now the official figure of people who died of hunger in the Great Leap Forward is between 40 and 50 million people.”
This is the danger of the collectivist mindset. Because the collectivists claim to have a ‘noble’ or ‘utopian’ end goal, their supporters will forgive even the most horrific crimes. Meanwhile, many of those same collectivists demonize capitalism, despite capitalism expanding wealth and expanding freedom.
Alexandre also makes a moral equivalence between countries like Canada & the US, and Communist China:
“China needs to follow the example that’s set by more sophisticated nations. I like that my brother said it’s wrong to think there’s any kind of human rights perfection, we’re a long way from it in Canada, there are real obstacles, security certificates, around the First Nations.
I think human rights…concern all the world and especially the so-called leader nations, which China will soon join economically. The example that’s been set hasn’t been a good one, in the last 10 to 20 years. The United States is a human rights country in some ways but look at the – avoidable – devastation they’ve wrought on the world. I see those questions with a lot of nuances, and my hardest demands on human rights questions are on my own country.”
Alexandre wanted Canada to be closer to China in order to develop an ‘independent’ voice
It gets even worse.
In a 2016 interview with CBC, Alexandre Trudeau called for Canada to have a closer relationship with China, and said we were too close to the USA:
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s brother Alexandre says Canada has lost its unique voice in the world and fallen into the role of a “confused follower nation” — but building a unique relationship with China could help fix that.
Alexandre made the comments in an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, where he was promoting his book Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China.
“In recent times Canada has disappeared as an independent voice, as a country that makes its own decisions about things,” Alexandre told host Rosemary Barton. “When’s the last time you think: ‘Well, Canada really has a position that is unlike any other?’ We’ve kind of fallen into a confused follower nation.”
The author and filmmaker said Canada should be surprising other countries with “authentically unique” positions on issues of international importance.
“It’s a constant challenge when we are so closely linked with the United States, obviously, they expect us to toe the line on so many issues, but it’s not even good for them that we be so close to them,” he said. “We have to be independent, and developing an independently sophisticated relationship with China is one of the big features of that.””
He also said human rights shouldn’t be considered when it comes to trade with China:
“Alexandre said his brother’s job is difficult when it comes to China, because Canada is a trading nation and his brother is the “salesman in chief” of a country where many citizens are uncomfortable with the human rights record of the Chinese government.
“I’m not one who believes that trade should be politicized like that,” he said. “I think the way to go at human rights is to say China has to evolve, we want to be a long-term friend to China and be helpful as it evolves, and we have a lot to learn from them too. Not just Canada but the West in general.””
It sounds almost insane: Canada should get closer to China in order to be more independent?
It simply doesn’t make sense.
Now, it’s important to remember that this is exactly what Justin Trudeau tried to do. He tried to distance Canada from our traditional allies like the United States and the United Kingdom, and sought an extradition deal with China and a free trade deal with China. He even let Chinese Communist State run companies buy up Canadian companies involved in areas of sensitive national security technology.
And now, as we discover that the Trudeau Liberals knew a CCP diplomat had threatened the family of Conservative MP Michael Chong and did nothing, and as they continue to desperately avoid a public inquiry, it becomes obvious that Justin Trudeau holds the same pro-China views as his father and brother.
It’s also not just the pro-China views that are a problem. It’s the subtly anti-Western Civilization views. It’s the drawing of a moral equivalency between the free democratic West and the ruthless Chinese Communist Party that killed tens of millions of people and has locked their population into an Orwellian surveillance state.
That attitude is incredibly dangerous when it’s held by a national leader. At his core, Justin Trudeau doesn’t really see Canada’s foundation – built upon Western Civilization – as something worth defending.
Canadians have to wake up and realize that Justin Trudeau wasn’t joking when he praised Communist China’s “Basic Dictatorship.” He was expressing his own views, and the deeply-held views of his family. The fact that Canada is being run by that family should disturb all of us, and should provide even more impetus to ensuring Trudeau is defeated and removed from power.
Spencer Fernando
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