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Justin Trudeau Eulogized Fidel Castro
Townhall.com ^ | February 19, 2022 | Humberto Fontova

Posted on 02/19/2022 4:43:35 AM PST by Kaslin

“Canadian truckers: Ottawa police arresting demonstrators, clearing out streets. Ottawa police announced Friday that some protesters 'are being arrested' during an operation to clear out those who have been demonstrating. ... There is a large police presence on Nicholas Street, protesters are being advised to leave immediately. Some protesters are surrendering and are being arrested, 'You will face severe penalties if you do not cease further unlawful activity,' Police tweeted.” (Fox News, 2/18.)

“It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President. Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation," said Justin Trudeau in 2016. “I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba. On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”

Fair enough, so here’s a few remarks regarding Fidel Castro’s leadership:

Fidel Castro jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six.

Fidel Castro shattered — through mass-executions, mass-jailings, mass larceny and exile — virtually every family on the island of Cuba. Many opponents of the Castro regime qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history, having suffered prison camps, forced labor and torture chambers for a period three times as long in Fidel Castro’s Gulag as Alexander Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s Gulag.

Fidel Castro also came closest of anyone in history to (wantonly) starting a worldwide nuclear war.

In the above process, Fidel Castro converted a highly-civilized nation with a higher standard of living than much of Europe and swamped with immigrants into a slum/sewer ravaged by tropical diseases and with the highest suicide rate in the Western hemisphere.

Over 20 times as many people (and counting) have died trying to escape Castro’s Cuba as died trying to escape East Germany. Yet prior to Castroism, Cuba received more immigrants per-capita than almost any nation on earth—more than the U.S. did including the Ellis Island years, in fact.

Canada has long ranked as the top source of Cuba’s tourists. Millions of Canadians (including perhaps many truckers) have been lavishing the Castro-Crime-Family with millions upon millions of their loonies for decades now. In fact, for the past decade over 1 million Canadians have vacationed annually in the Castro –Family-Fiefdom. In brief, Canadians have done more than any other nation save the Soviet Union and Venezuela to subsidize the mass-murder and repression catalogued above. And the hypocrisy of Canadian governments (both Liberal and Conservative) regarding Cuba and sanctions is truly staggering. To wit:

“We emphasize the importance of maintaining sanctions. Sanctions were imposed to help us end the apartheid system. It is only logical that we must continue to apply this form of pressure against the South African government.” That was Nelson Mandela addressing (and thanking) the Canadian Parliament in June 1990 for imposing, and championing in every international forum, economic sanctions against South Africa.

Yet for over 50 years Canada has been among the Stalinist Castro regime’s most generous business partners. For the past 50 years, every Canadian administration from whatever point on the political compass, has consistently bashed the U.S. for its “cruel and counter-productive” Cuba policy while joining the rest of the world’s hypocrites in voting against these U.S. sanctions.

On top of the Canadian tourism windfall, Castro’s Stalinist regime has found some of its most enthusiastic partners in crime among Canadian companies. In a joint-venture with Cuba’s Stalinist regime, for instance, Canada’s Sherritt International occupies and operates the Moa nickel mining plant in Cuba’s Oriente province, stolen at Soviet gunpoint from its U.S. managers and stockholders in July 1960 (when it was worth $90 million.)

But Sherritt’s criminality hardly stops as a trafficker in stolen property, and hence, accessory to theft. Sherritt’s workers are chosen and assigned by the Cuban regime who sets their wages and dictates the payment schedule. After Sherritt pays these wages (not to the workers, but to the Stalinist regime) the latter dribbles .5 percent of the total to the workers, pocketing the rest. (As dreadful as they make life for their subjects, the Red Chinese and Red Vietnamese regimes dictate nothing of the sort when hosting western companies as business partners.)

By the way, prior to the glorious Cuban revolution, Moa nickel plant’s workers enjoyed the 8th highest industrial wages — not in the hemisphere — but in the world, higher than those in Britain, France and Germany. And these wages were paid in Cuban dollars, convertible, in those dark and dreadful ages, one to one with the U.S. dollar.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: canada; castro; cuba; fidel; fidelcastro; justintrudeau; letsgobrandeau
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1 posted on 02/19/2022 4:43:35 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Why Canada vote for this man I will never know? Well, yes I do, but many won’t say it: looks. Just like people fawn of AOC: Looks.


2 posted on 02/19/2022 4:47:16 AM PST by whyilovetexas111
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To: Kaslin

3 posted on 02/19/2022 4:47:26 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something"? I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: Kaslin

Making his Nazi Granddaddy proud every day.


4 posted on 02/19/2022 4:48:46 AM PST by MissEdie (Be the Light in Someone's Darkness.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

5 posted on 02/19/2022 4:49:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Kaslin

That's my boy.

6 posted on 02/19/2022 4:50:55 AM PST by McGruff (Trump/DeSantis 2024)
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To: Kaslin; MtnClimber

7 posted on 02/19/2022 4:55:15 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Kaslin

the truckers should chant, “you will be held accountable. Following Orders is not a just excuse.”


8 posted on 02/19/2022 5:04:15 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: whyilovetexas111

That, but I think there are 2 other things:

The globalist political apparatus makes sure that only certain folks get a chance…..IE…no one who actually cares about their country and it’s citizens allowed

The people continue to pay vote for the “lesser of two evils” and the folks who want to be “moderate”….ie…..no to Pat Buchanan, yes to Rubio.

All things we deal with in the US every November.


9 posted on 02/19/2022 5:09:27 AM PST by qaz123
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To: whyilovetexas111

Mi papá era un buen hombre. Un día voy a ser como el exactamente.

Con todo mi amor,

Justito


10 posted on 02/19/2022 5:28:57 AM PST by Levy78
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To: Kaslin

All boys love their dad. 😏


11 posted on 02/19/2022 5:33:18 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MtnClimber

Family affair


12 posted on 02/19/2022 5:49:32 AM PST by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Salamander

How many of Bill Clinton’s kids are out there?


13 posted on 02/19/2022 5:59:01 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Kaslin

And now he’s channelling him.


14 posted on 02/19/2022 6:01:35 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: MtnClimber

I held my daughter like that once and my dad said...”She’s not a sack of potatoes.”


15 posted on 02/19/2022 6:27:47 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Kaslin

We are witnessing a brutal communist takeover of Canada.


16 posted on 02/19/2022 6:29:13 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Kaslin

I’m assuming Hitler Trudeau won this war. The evil left-wing tyrant so desperately wanted a fake J6 incident as an excuse to put more regulation on its people! Can’t believe the conservative Parliament reps just sat there....see Tyrants and their fake mediapuke government controlled cronies always win always! People don’t have a prayer. Once your rights are taken away from you.... your screwed!


17 posted on 02/19/2022 6:38:50 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: McGruff

Very convincing.


18 posted on 02/19/2022 6:46:10 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.Yexas and Tex)
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To: Kaslin

“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader...”

... and my Dad. Miss ya, Pop.


19 posted on 02/19/2022 6:47:52 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: whyilovetexas111

Why Canada vote for this man I will never know

They voted for his party ; his party put him up for PM.


20 posted on 02/19/2022 6:51:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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