Pierre Trudeau died 10 years ago this week, so of course the tributes and legacy analyses have been coming thick and fast. Among my favourites was offered up by Chantel Hebert, one of the few people worth reading at the Toronto Star.
Well, I have one, too. But unlike most commentators, I come to bury Trudeau (or at least make sure he’s still buried), not to praise him.
While he certainly had a profound impact on Canada, it was mostly destructive. Even the few positive changes he made might be called inevitable; they were the type of changes that were coming to every western society by dint of cultural evolution anyway.
Trudeau was by and large a social engineer convinced of his own intellectual superiority and the cloddish unimaginativeness of nearly everyone else. Not only was he arrogant enough to believe that the natural laws of society and economics can be ignored by determined central planners without consequences, he was also arrogant enough to imagine the light had been given to him more than anyone else, so that he alone possessed the superior knowledge required to see what needed doing and everyone else should defer to him.
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Obama is the US version of Trudeau. With any luck, US citizens will waken earlier than Canadians did to the damage that a radical left wing idealogue can do in such short order.
PET was the most corrupt and corrupting PM in Canadian history. He is followed closely behind by his henchman JC. IMHO
Interesting choice of imagery on the front page for this post Jack — can we expect the next post about Donald Rumsfeld to include the one with him and Saddam Hussein?
I love the picture where G. Bush is walking hand in hand with a Saudi Prince.
But all that being said, Truedough was probably the worse PM this country has ever had and still suffering from his francophone biased policies like Bilingualism.
Re: #3 — “Interesting choice of imagery on the front page for this post Jack ”
I kinda liked it. “Best buddies” and all that.
UV says “I love the picture where G. Bush is walking hand in hand with a Saudi Prince.”
Do you like the one where Obama is bowing so low on the Saudi Prince that it looks like he is trying to blow him?
Joe, define ‘blowing him’ before Jack censors you.
Great article by Mr. Gunter. Thanks for posting it, Jack.
I share the author’s opinion of the PM that my dad always called that littlepinkosonofabitch. The fellow was a big pimple on Canada, always sore and always oozing pudrid fluid. He is still despised by westerners who really suffered via his hatred for us -NEP - he was low enough to give a group of Western Canadian citizens an obscene gesture with one of his digits, on his first road/train trip across the country.
You are correct Joe B. the fluffy PET was our Obama, like you, I hope that the American people will wake up faster than we did – to save themselves (and us!) from state slavery.