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  1. Pierre Elliott Trudeau had a thing for Marxism and communist leaders, regardless of how murderous and despotic they were. And he apparently passed it down to his son. Back in 2013, for example, Trudeau was asked at a fundraising event what nation he admired the most. He didn’t even hesitate. “There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” he responded. “Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.” Trudeau Sr. had been to China twice as a private citizen before his official 1973 visit as the prime minister of Canada, meeting privately in the Forbidden City with the rarely-seen Chairman Mao Zedong, then pushing 80. The atrocities Mao inflicted on his people were well documented by intelligence agencies, monitoring what the Cold War era then referred to as Red China. Pierre Trudeau was not blind to these obscenities. Many historians, in fact, put Mao above Hitler and Stalin when it comes to infamy, citing him as responsible for an estimated 40 million to 70 million deaths through starvation, forced labour and executions, with his tenure ranked as the top incident of democide in all of human history. When estimated death tolls vary by as much as 30 million, which is the approximate population of Canada, it speaks volumes about China’s iron lid on containment. Three years after Mao, Pierre Trudeau was off to Havana to become pals with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, so much so that Castro, despite then being quite feeble, insisted on attending Trudeau’s funeral in Montreal 16 years ago. A 2009 report by Human Rights Watch concluded that Castro’s brother, Raul Castro, has “kept Cuba’s repressive machinery firmly in place” since taking over control of the country. There is little doubt that Justin Trudeau will be reminded of his father’s grand associations with Mao and Castro when he meets at the end of next month with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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