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This day in history: Pierre Elliott Trudeau won the Liberal Party leadership election on this day in 1968, and became the Prime Minister of Canada soon afterward.
What is little known about the elder Trudeau was his radicalism. In 1947, Trudeau was a student at the London School of Economics, founded by the Fabian Socialists to train Marxists and spread Marxism. Professor Harold Laski, then head of the Fabian Society, was publicly advocating violent revolution at the time.
A biography of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau entitled, Young Trudeau, revealed that he was "a fascist, anti-Semite, separatist" and communist.
"Bob Plamondon, author of a 2013 biography of Pierre Trudeau recounts how Trudeau the Elder visited the Soviet Union in 1952 to discuss economics, this accompanied by four Canadian communists. 'It was there that he remarked to the wife of U.S. chargé d’affaires that he was a communist and a Catholic and was in Moscow to criticize the U.S. and praise the Soviet Union.'" Source
This was at a time when Russia was still under Stalin's brutal rule.
"When the U.S.S.R. crumbled under the weight of its own oppression and economic decline, Trudeau was thunderstruck and criticized Western countries for facilitating the Soviet break-up by 'playing footsy with the independentists … recognizing every Tom, Dick, and Harry Republic that decided to proclaim its independence.' Trudeau did not see the deterioration of the U.S.S.R. as progress. He did not celebrate the innate desire of humanity for freedom and democracy, but called it 'chaos (and) something which I think we will eventually regret.'" Source
In 1960, Trudeau visited China, during Mao's Great Leap Forward project that ended up killing up to 42 million people. Trudeau believed that centralized planned economies like China's were the most efficient.
After this we have Trudeau's famous fascination with Fidel Castro, the Communist dictator of Cuba. This disturbing obsession with tyrants should have disqualified him from leadership of any kind.
Like other Communists/Socialists, Trudeau also grossly mismanaged his country's finances. By the time Pierre Trudeau retired in 1984, Canada’s national debt had grown by 700%.
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