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Lonnie Donnigan
I'm sure Sophie and the kids
will have to come of course too. And they will also need some downtime
of course on the beaches. Meanwhile us Canadian tax payers will get to
pay for it and are probably going to be told with our low dollar again
this year to enjoy a lovely staycation right here at home.
Laurel Millar
@Lonnie Donnigan
I must have missed something. It doesn't say in the article that Trudeau is taking his family. Stop jumping to conclusions that are not there.
I must have missed something. It doesn't say in the article that Trudeau is taking his family. Stop jumping to conclusions that are not there.
Lonnie Donnigan
@John Henry
Funny how the Trudeaus love Cuba and communism but would never want to let their family wealth be redistributed by the government. They would be the first to complain. Cuba doesn't have millionaires unless they belong to the government or are close friends with the government.
Funny how the Trudeaus love Cuba and communism but would never want to let their family wealth be redistributed by the government. They would be the first to complain. Cuba doesn't have millionaires unless they belong to the government or are close friends with the government.
Peter Hill
@Lonnie Donnigan
Now if you can explain how it would actually cost more based on the fact that the plane can carry more than one person and staying in Cuba will only cost more for a little more food.
At least he isn't taking his full time, taxpayer paid hairdresser along with his whole family, he can do his own hair.
Now if you can explain how it would actually cost more based on the fact that the plane can carry more than one person and staying in Cuba will only cost more for a little more food.
At least he isn't taking his full time, taxpayer paid hairdresser along with his whole family, he can do his own hair.
Lawrence Aaluuluuq (RedWhite)
@John Henry
The point is, if you're telling us that we're not allowed to complain about Harper, then if you want to maintain any shred of intellectual self respect, you should cease complaining about Pierre Trudeau, and Chretien, as you frequently do.
The point is, if you're telling us that we're not allowed to complain about Harper, then if you want to maintain any shred of intellectual self respect, you should cease complaining about Pierre Trudeau, and Chretien, as you frequently do.
@Lonnie Donnigan
Sounds just like more Conservative rhetoric, since conservatives love centralizing wealth,it's the sameold same old, all the time, and with the same NO facts to back anything up.
Sounds just like more Conservative rhetoric, since conservatives love centralizing wealth,it's the sameold same old, all the time, and with the same NO facts to back anything up.
Lonnie Donnigan
@Peter Hill
I see. So they should go for free. Wonderful logic. Its the principle of the matter of his family getting a free ride when they really don't need to go. Oh but I see you have a problem if a staffer goes along. You know the nannies Justin has? Harper was able to make his kids sandwiches and didn't need nannies.
I see. So they should go for free. Wonderful logic. Its the principle of the matter of his family getting a free ride when they really don't need to go. Oh but I see you have a problem if a staffer goes along. You know the nannies Justin has? Harper was able to make his kids sandwiches and didn't need nannies.
Pete Shartin
@Bill Jacobs
Kind of like the polls in the US had HRC winning the election hey
Kind of like the polls in the US had HRC winning the election hey
1 hour ago
Roberta Cullin
@Brent Mackenzie
What proof do you have that Mr. Trump will keep that promise ?
What proof do you have that Mr. Trump will keep that promise ?
Roberta Cullin
@John Henry
It seems that you are allowed to post anti - Trudeau comments on this site, but non Conservative supporters are not allowed to remind you of the trips that the leader of the pervious government took with his family ?
You and your friends are also very much in error of your misguided ideas that the CBC is favour of the Liberal party, keeping in mind just who the directors are .
It seems that you are allowed to post anti - Trudeau comments on this site, but non Conservative supporters are not allowed to remind you of the trips that the leader of the pervious government took with his family ?
You and your friends are also very much in error of your misguided ideas that the CBC is favour of the Liberal party, keeping in mind just who the directors are .
David Raymond Amos
@Lonnie Donnigan Ya think
before Trudeau "The Younger" traces his Fat Dadddy's footsteps as the
first boss of NATO and catches a like sun after dealing with Banksters
today while the Loonie takes a nosedive, he would check to see what NATO
and the Russians are up to today N'esy Pas?
Go Figure
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-latvia-deployment-1.3833735
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/aleppo-syria-war-peace-1.3849240
https://www.rt.com/news/364957-shoigu-warships-naval-%D1%81arrier/
At the very least ya think the puppet masters of Trudeau"The Younger" would read what the Russians and the Crown Corp commonly known as the CBC has to say about the topic of NATO etc. Methinks the Liberals won't read English news just like I don't bother with the work of the other people you oversee in Radio Canada EH Hubby Baby Lacroix?
Go Figure
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-latvia-deployment-1.3833735
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/aleppo-syria-war-peace-1.3849240
https://www.rt.com/news/364957-shoigu-warships-naval-%D1%81arrier/
At the very least ya think the puppet masters of Trudeau"The Younger" would read what the Russians and the Crown Corp commonly known as the CBC has to say about the topic of NATO etc. Methinks the Liberals won't read English news just like I don't bother with the work of the other people you oversee in Radio Canada EH Hubby Baby Lacroix?
Justin Trudeau heads to Cuba, decades after his father's history-making trip
Pierre Trudeau was 1st Western leader to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1976
By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Nov 14, 2016 5:00 AM ET
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau is greeted by Fidel Castro after arriving in Cuba on Jan. 26, 1976
In January 1976, then prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
rankled many when he became the first NATO leader — in fact, the first
Western leader — to visit Fidel Castro's Cuba. The two got on famously,
developing a close bond that would last for decades after that
encounter.
Now, his son, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is heading to the Caribbean country Tuesday to try and rekindle the special bond as part of a three-country tour that will also take him to Argentina and Peru, where an APEC summit is being held.
The current prime minister faces a much different Cuba than his father, who descended on the fledgling Communist country at a tense time, while the Cold War was raging.
Now, under President Barack Obama, Cuba and the U.S. have begun to forge closer ties after a decades-old trade embargo, loosening economic sanctions and restoring diplomatic relations.
"Canadians imagine a special kind of relationship, because it's not one the Americans had, and it all harkens back to that Trudeau visit. We have been dining out on that idea in Cuba ever since," Robert Wright, the author of Three Nights in Havana, the definitive account of the trip, said in an interview with CBC News.
The historian said Canada has in recent years been relatively "nonchalant" about maintaining ties with Cuba. "I would dare say that the idea that Canadians had a special place in Cuba is probably disappearing very quickly ... because Americans are free to go to the island."
But the visit wasn't quite as well-received in Canada, where critics said the prime minister was lending legitimacy to an authoritarian regime backed by the big guns in Moscow.
Trudeau made the visit to damp down tensions, and to "see the humanity of the enemy," Wright said.
"Trudeau went expecting not to change Fidel's mind, or have his own mind changed, but rather to be able to sit down and speak respectfully with someone whose ideas he didn't share."
"These two somewhat aloof, cerebral, contained, emotionally unapproachable guys hit it off. Fidel was smitten by him."
Trudeau was equally taken by the revolutionary turned dictator, provocatively shouting "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" in his address to the Cuban people.
Castro, who was seven years younger than Trudeau, came to see the Canadian leader as a mentor, someone he trusted, Wright said, and a leader with whom he regularly consulted.
It was more than friendly relations among world leaders, it was, as Alexandre Trudeau would write in a glowing tribute to the Cuban leader in a 2006 newspaper op-ed, "extra-political."
"Indeed, like my father, in private, Fidel is not a politician. He is more in the vein of a great adventurer or a great scientific mind. Fidel doesn't really do politics. He is a revolutionary."
Castro was particularly fond of Michel, Justin's late brother, who accompanied his father and mother, Margaret, on that 1976 trip.
"He was falling all over the baby, cooing for the cameras," Wright said.
Castro later welcomed Michel to the island for special visits for
many years after that first encounter — including one in early 1990s,
when Justin tagged along.
Castro, Wright said, was devastated by Michel's death in an avalanche in 1998, and was equally distraught when Pierre Trudeau died. He made the trip to Montreal for Trudeau's state funeral, where he was seen hugging a teary Justin.
The prospect of the current prime minister replicating that sort of
close, long-standing personal relationship with Raul Castro, Fidel's
brother and successor, is unlikely, Wright said, in part because of the
massive age gap between the two. (Raul is 85.)
The visit is also for roughly 24 hours, and won't include a great deal of personal time to forge closer ties.
"If 'Viva Raul' is uttered by the prime minister, I'd be very surprised," Wright said.
He also doesn't expect Trudeau to push too hard on the country's persistent problems with human rights, saying Trudeau will likely follow a similar tack to the one he took during a recent visit to China.
"It not likely that he will go to Havana with any kind of heavy handed agenda on political reforms. He has to walk that knife's edge."
But the trip to Havana won't be complete, Wright said, without paying a visit to his father's old chum.
"Presuming that Fidel is well enough, and lucid enough, to see him. I'd be very surprised if that wasn't on the agenda, even if briefly."
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Now, his son, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is heading to the Caribbean country Tuesday to try and rekindle the special bond as part of a three-country tour that will also take him to Argentina and Peru, where an APEC summit is being held.
The current prime minister faces a much different Cuba than his father, who descended on the fledgling Communist country at a tense time, while the Cold War was raging.
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Now, under President Barack Obama, Cuba and the U.S. have begun to forge closer ties after a decades-old trade embargo, loosening economic sanctions and restoring diplomatic relations.
"Canadians imagine a special kind of relationship, because it's not one the Americans had, and it all harkens back to that Trudeau visit. We have been dining out on that idea in Cuba ever since," Robert Wright, the author of Three Nights in Havana, the definitive account of the trip, said in an interview with CBC News.
The historian said Canada has in recent years been relatively "nonchalant" about maintaining ties with Cuba. "I would dare say that the idea that Canadians had a special place in Cuba is probably disappearing very quickly ... because Americans are free to go to the island."
3 Nights in Havana
More than 250,000 people turned out on the streets of Havana to welcome Pierre Trudeau, Wright said, interpreting his visit as a friendly gesture amid global tumult.But the visit wasn't quite as well-received in Canada, where critics said the prime minister was lending legitimacy to an authoritarian regime backed by the big guns in Moscow.
Thousands of Cuban people line the streets in
Havana, Cuba, to greet Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has he
drives through the city in 1976. Fidel Castro is also along with him in
the open car. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)
"Trudeau went expecting not to change Fidel's mind, or have his own mind changed, but rather to be able to sit down and speak respectfully with someone whose ideas he didn't share."
"These two somewhat aloof, cerebral, contained, emotionally unapproachable guys hit it off. Fidel was smitten by him."
Trudeau was equally taken by the revolutionary turned dictator, provocatively shouting "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" in his address to the Cuban people.
Castro, who was seven years younger than Trudeau, came to see the Canadian leader as a mentor, someone he trusted, Wright said, and a leader with whom he regularly consulted.
It was more than friendly relations among world leaders, it was, as Alexandre Trudeau would write in a glowing tribute to the Cuban leader in a 2006 newspaper op-ed, "extra-political."
"Indeed, like my father, in private, Fidel is not a politician. He is more in the vein of a great adventurer or a great scientific mind. Fidel doesn't really do politics. He is a revolutionary."
Castro was particularly fond of Michel, Justin's late brother, who accompanied his father and mother, Margaret, on that 1976 trip.
"He was falling all over the baby, cooing for the cameras," Wright said.
Cuban President Fidel Castro holds baby
Michel as Pierre and Margaret Trudeau look on during their state visit
to Cuba in Jan., 1976 photo. (Canadian Press Archives)
Castro, Wright said, was devastated by Michel's death in an avalanche in 1998, and was equally distraught when Pierre Trudeau died. He made the trip to Montreal for Trudeau's state funeral, where he was seen hugging a teary Justin.
Justin Trudeau talks to Cuban President Fidel
Castro, centre, outside Notre-Dame Basillica at the beginning of the
state funeral for his father, former prime minister Pierre Elliott
Trudeau in Montreal. (Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)
The visit is also for roughly 24 hours, and won't include a great deal of personal time to forge closer ties.
"If 'Viva Raul' is uttered by the prime minister, I'd be very surprised," Wright said.
He also doesn't expect Trudeau to push too hard on the country's persistent problems with human rights, saying Trudeau will likely follow a similar tack to the one he took during a recent visit to China.
"It not likely that he will go to Havana with any kind of heavy handed agenda on political reforms. He has to walk that knife's edge."
But the trip to Havana won't be complete, Wright said, without paying a visit to his father's old chum.
"Presuming that Fidel is well enough, and lucid enough, to see him. I'd be very surprised if that wasn't on the agenda, even if briefly."
To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.
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