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On his recent trip to the People’s Republic of China, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a “landmark” deal to allow 49,000 Chinese electric cars into Canada at reduced rates, in exchange for China lowering tariffs on Canadian agricultural products. Ontario premier Doug Ford warned of damage to the Canadian auto industry and relations with the United States. That was already accomplished by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, whose Stalinist back story is largely unknown in both countries.
“Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health,” notes David Frum. After WWII, Trudeau “traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities,” a reference to the economic conference Stalin staged in 1952. The timing is significant.
Stalin maintained control of Eastern Europe, ramped up the persecution of writers and artists, and swung the USSR and its captive states back to their traditional anti-Semitism, dubbing Jews “rootless cosmopolitans” and “Zionists” – for having a state of their own. In 1952, the Czech Stalinist regime staged show trials for Communist officials such as Rudolf Slansky who were “hanged for being Jews and nothing else,” as director Robert Rossen (All the Kings Men) contended. Rossen and many others left the Communist Party at that time but Pierre Trudeau came back from the conference a true believer.
“He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China,” Frum recalled, and praised Soviet projects built by “slave labor.” For Trudeau, those slaves all loved their Communist masters, who gave them “free” health care and such. Prime minister Trudeau, “to the extent he could, tried to reorient Canada away from the great democratic alliance.” To that end, Trudeau allowed the USSR to sell the Soviet Lada automobile in Canada, starting in southern Ontario, the center of Canada’s auto industry. Trudeau intended this move to help the Soviets and hurt the Canadians. As Frum noted, “as a political wrecker, he was truly world class.”
Like all cars produced by Communism, the woeful Lada made few inroads in a competitive auto market. That failed to dampen Trudeau’s affection for Communist dictatorships, and his back story would gain special protection.
During the 1950s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) performed as Canada’s intelligence service, working closely with the American FBI. In June of 1984, under prime minister Trudeau, Canada created the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to replace the RCMP’s intel function. In 1989, under “progressive conservative” Brian Mulroney, the CSIS destroyed files on Trudeau’s Stalinist days, instead of giving them to the national archives.
That year at Tiananmen Square, China confirmed that it was still a murderous regime, gunning down hundreds, possibly thousands, of pro-democracy protesters. As The Black Book of Communism would show, the PRC dictators were responsible for some 60 million deaths, far exceeding the toll of Stalin and Hitler. That cut no ice with Trudeau, who passed away in September of 2000. Jump ahead to November, 2013.
“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” Justin Trudeau proclaimed. “Their basic dictatorshipis actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.” Two years later Trudeau fils gained election as prime minister, and by that time China’s basic dictatorship had made considerable inroads north of the border.
As Israeli microbiologist Dr. Dany Shoham showed in China and Viruses: The Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, Canada put Dr. Qiu, a Chinese national, in charge of pathogens at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg. From that Level 4 lab, Dr. Qiu transferred a host of deadly pathogens, including the Nipah virus, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and in 2017-18 made at least five trips to the WIV, which works with China’s military. When the Covid virus made its way from Wuhan to North America, Trudeau imposed a rigid lockdown regime, debanking peacefully protesting truckers and harassing their supporters.
By that time, China was setting up police stations in Canada to monitor Chinese Canadians, interfering in Canadian elections, and sending ghost ships into Canada’s arctic waters. The Communist regime also kidnapped Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor as retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, and slapped tariffs on Canadian agricultural exports. Carney brushed it all aside and that should come as no surprise.
Mark Carney is a disciple of John Kenneth Galbraith, a socialist masquerading as an economist, and like Pierre Trudeau a big fan of the USSR. “It is evident that the Soviet economy has made great material progress in recent years,” Galbraith wrote in 1984, when Soviet failures were obvious to all but the willfully blind, and the hardliner Konstantin Chernenko headed the nation.
The People’s Republic of China remains a Communist dictatorship, but if the PRC ever did anything with which Mark Carney disagreed it’s hard to know what it might be. On his recent trip to the PRC, Carney was “heartened by the leadership of President Xi Jinping and the speed with which our relationship has progressed.” His plan to bring Chinese electric cars to Canada is sure to delight California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who also admires China’s basic dictatorship.
In 2020, Newsom proclaimed that by 2035, electric vehicles would account for all new sales of cars and light trucks in California. That doubtless presages his plan for the country, should he gain election as president. China’s major manufacturer of EVs is Build Your Dreams (BYD). In March of 2020, Gov. Newsom declared a state of emergency in California. In April, Newsom announced a no-bid $1 billion deal for masks with BYD, hiding details of the deal even from fellow Democrats.
As David Frum explained, Pierre Trudeau was a “bad man and disastrous prime minister.”
Gavin Newsom and Mark Carney replicate Pierre and Justin Trudeau’s approval of totalitarian government. Few if any denunciations of China’s human rights violations, no support for dissidents and political prisoners, and no call for free elections. Carney now reprises Trudeau’s role as a salesman for China’s cars. No Des plus brillants exploits from these two, and if Canadians regard Carney as China’s governor general it would be hard to blame them.
Americans can be forgiven for regarding Gov. Newsom as China’s colonial official in California, which they could already call Californiachucuo. As Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter show in Fool’s Gold: The Radicals and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All, Gov. Newsom’s longstanding partnerships with China are now embedded in his Office of Business and Economic development, also known as GO-biz.
Fool’s Gold makes a strong case that Gov. Newsom should be made to register as an official agent of PRC companies under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). As Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens, but in the meantime it’s all about memory against forgetting.
