Sorry, had to.
Posted on 07/06/2005 10:14:15 AM PDT by quidnunc
It looks like frosty relations with the not so great white north will continue for quite some time. Canada’s new ambassador to the United States has identified Fox News as public enemy #1. Frank Mckenna, the failed premier of a small province most noted for collecting unemployment benefits between seal clubbing seasons, is peeved at what he calls the “Fox factor.”
The ambassador claims Fox spreads lies and disinformation about his homeland and his plan is to mail out anti-Fox news letters to the more than one million Canadians living in Florida, Arizona and other warm weather states and urge them to counter the “Fox falsehoods.”
If he thinks a glossy mail-out is the answer to the deteriorating relationship between the two neighbors, it’s likely the ambassador has been getting into some of that soon-to be-decriminalized marijuana that has become Canada’s number one export.
He’s particularly steamed at Bill O’Reilly for noting that Canada is not doing its part in the war on terror (it isn’t) and is a haven for terrorists (there are fifty such cells in operation according to the RCMP). This, coming from a member of the government that turned its back on its long time ally regarding Iraq and then cried and stomped its feet like a four year old when informed that only those supporting the war effort could get in on the rebuilding contracts.
The relationship has actually been in the toilet since the 1960’s when then Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, sought to sever ties with Britain and the U.S. and move closer to the Soviet Union. Trudeau, who clearly hated all things American and was best friends with Fidel Castro, made anti-Americanism a cherished Canadian value. Not that there’s a lot of them.
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Gubmint money at work.
I am sure that some day Americans will notice that Canadians don't just love them to death. ......Some day has not arrived yet Poor Canadians :)
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As far as I know, as awful as Trudeau was (and Ill be the first and loudest to say so), he was never a fan of the USSR.
"when then Prime Minister, Pierre Trudeau, sought to sever ties with Britain and the U.S. and move closer to the Soviet Union"
Source please???????
I'd also like to know the source of that.
"RAY SUAREZ: In 1968, the phenomenon of Trudeaumania swept Canada. The country was infatuated with the flashy bachelor who in three years went from obscure law professor to parliament member, to prime minister. Trudeau quickly became known for his sports car, the company he kept and the signature red rose on his lapel. Trudeau's style of leadership often clashed with official Washington. He opposed the Vietnam War and welcomed American draft dodgers; expanded economic relations with Fidel Castro's Cuba; promoted peace with the Soviet Union, to the dismay of then-President Reagan; and fought to protect Canada's identity from its imposing neighbor to the South."
LOL.
I forget who said this first, but "Canada - our big dumb unemployable cousin who lives in the attic and doesn't help pay the bills. All we ask of him is that he shut the hell up, but he can't even do that."
Speaking as a former Canadian, now U.S. citizen (longer than I was Canadian) ... with no great love for Trudeau ... I can state categorically that aside from the fact Canada has relations with Cuba ... the rest is pure BS.
Promoting peace, how horrible! As opposed to what, promoting a world war?? Nixon also promoted peace, as did many other presidents (including Reagan).
That's a long way from, "severing ties with Britain and America." Where did that line come from, Tucker Carlson? (I know you didn't post this line, I'm asking rhetorically)
"Frank Mckenna, the failed premier of a small province most noted for collecting unemployment benefits between seal clubbing seasons"
Clubbing seals in New Brunswick? Someone's not doing any fact checking here.
They are right about Trudeau and Castro though - I believe Maggie (his then wife) even slept with Fidel. Can't you just hear the echo "but it was in the spirit of the times"
I am so glad I didn't grow up in the sixties. Trudeau was gone before I could vote.
That would be Newfoundland. New Brunswick, the province of which Frank was premier, is noted for forest products, Donald Sutherland, Matt Stairs of the KC Royals and Rheal Cormier of the Phillies.
thanks for adding the provincial notables....I wouldn't shout about Sutherland though, recall his father in law was Tommy Douglas, head of the Canadian Communist Party.
BTW - I do think conservative PM Brian Mulroney did a lot with the help of President Regan to strengthen ties...but then his daughter married Louis Lapham's son (eeeyeww)
He never met a communist he didn’t like.
That’s the reality that all of the adoring eulogies to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau somehow fail to mention. It was completely expected that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro showed up for Trudeau’s state funeral on October 5, after he declared three days of mourning in his totalitarian state. The two were great buddies ever since Trudeau visited Cuba in 1973 and proclaimed "Viva Castro!" One only has to read Armando Valladaras’ Against All Hope to get a good sense of the moral degeneracy it takes to utter such words about the father of Cuba’s concentration camp system. Valladaras, a Cuban poet who spent twenty years of torture and imprisonment for merely raising the issue of freedom, provides the most indicting and heart-wrenching account of Castro’s atrocious human-rights record. His book serves as Cuba's version of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. For Trudeau, of course, there were bigger priorities: cozying up to individuals who put the ideas of socialism into actual practise.
Castro, of course, was not alone in enjoying Trudeau’s publicly-declared endorsements. The same year he pronounced “Viva Castro!” Trudeau also praised Mao Tse-tung's revolution in China, stating that Mao had delivered a wonderful system to his people. At that time, it was already well-documented in the West that Mao’s gulag had liquidated more than 60 million human lives.
Trudeau’s behaviour becomes understandable in the context of his life-long admiration of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the 18th century French philosopher who, in his famous promotion of the submission of the individual to the “general will,” set out the blueprint for the genocide-making not only of the French Revolution, but of the Marxist and Nazi revolutions of the 20th century.
Thus, in Trudeau’s philosophical outlook, the innocent victims of Castro’s and Mao’s concentration camps were not to be thought about in their human context, but only in abstract terms — if at all.
As Prime Minister, Trudeau was enchanted with pacifism, although not the kind that Castro might have practised vis-à-vis Cuban intellectuals. Instead, Trudeau tried to pull Canada out of NATO. Failing that, he succeeded in cutting in half Canada's NATO commitments in Europe, and in decimating the preparedness of his own armed forces at home.
Trudeau never forgot about Cuba, of course. In 1976, he made sure to help Castro’s effort to liberate Angolan citizens from their individual interests, and to help subordinate them to the general will. Thus, Trudeau allowed Cuban transport planes to refuel in Newfoundland before they stocked up in the Soviet Union and flew to Angola to fight for class utopia.
One problem was that Castro couldn’t much help Julius Nyerere, the ruthless communist dictator of Tanzania, whose disastrous Marxist economic policies created a large-scale famine. Trudeau came to the rescue. As a great admirer of Nyerere, he made sure that Canada exported free food supplies to the communist dictatorship, supplies which communist elites grabbed for themselves, and which never reached the individuals who failed to subordinate their interests to the general will — which meant the people of Tanzania.
Very little, of course, tingled the human heart as much as the compliments that Trudeau heaved upon the Soviet regime, a system that inflicted genocide on a scale that only Mao could surpass in numbers killed. Trudeau visited the Soviet Union not once, but twice, and on one of the visits he could not restrain himself from praising the way the Soviets had developed their North — saying that Canada should do the same. Anyone who had the slightest knowledge about the Soviet Union at the time knew that the Soviet North was developed by concentration camp slave labour. Trudeau knew it as well. But, of course, he also knew the importance of the “general will.” That’s why he never apologized to the families of the millions of those who perished, nor to Soviet dissidents, who were infuriated by his remark.
When Trudeau missed Fidel, he filled the void by palling around with the long-time Soviet ambassador to Canada, Alexander Yakovlev. He also signed a "friendship protocol" with the Soviets, a friendship of which he was genuinely proud.
In light of these realities, it might do well to build a Lenin-style mausoleum on Parliament Hill for the late Prime Minister. It might be the least Canadians can do, in memory of Canada’s great humanitarian leader, whose life was dedicated to praising those who had sacrificed human life on the altar of utopian ideals.
(Jamie Glazov in FrontPage Magazine, October 11, 2000)
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Trudeau defenders please read.
It's typical of the socialists to not take responsibility for their own actions. I always wondered why Canadian conservatives praised McKenna as the Can. amb. to the US?
Please invade us now America.
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