I agree. McCarthy WAS right and he was demonized and excoriated by the left for decades. His name wasn't cleared until the late 80s or early 90s.
In the minds and propaganda of the Left, he is still a demon.
On September 5th, 1945, a cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and revealed to the Canadian government that the Soviets had a spy ring all set up. One of their tasks was to get hold of the secrets behind the atomic bomb. As a result of his testimony, 39 suspects were arrested and 18 convicted.
The news leaked out in early 1946 and caused a sensation, like the Hiss-Chambers trial did in the States. Only...
...the story died away because the Canadian government took action. Unlike the Truman Administration, which sat on the Dees Commission Report, Prime Minister Mackenzie King decided to man up and see the prosecutions through. By the time the press splayed the details of the story on the front pages, the matter had essentially been taken care of.
Result? There was no trace of McCarthyism in Canada. Why? Because the Mackenzie King government, instead of trying to bury the spy scandal and foot-drag, dealt with it. As a result, there was no sensible basis to assume there was any kind of a pro-Communist cover-up in Ottawa. In Canada, no McCarthy figure was ever needed.
Now, Prime Minister Mackenzie King was a Liberal. The next time you bump into a liberal who thinks the Canadian variety are especially admirable, feel free to hold up Mackenzie King as one of them. On the grounds given above, that is.