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Originally Posted by redforever
I second that!!! Crying before the milk is even spilled!!!
I was never a Liberal, never voted Liberal, but I do admire Trudeau, even though I was dead against the NEP and even though he ran Canada into a huge deficit to finance all the social programs and initiatives he introduced.
Why did I admire him? Well, for one thing, he put Canada on the international stage. For instance, he basically told the USA to take a little hike as he kept relations with Cuba and would visit with Fidel Castro. And I think he made Canada a kinder and gentler nation, a nation the rest of the world admires. Yes, we pay a lot for that "kind" image, but to most Canadians, that image is money well spent. And he brought a kind of intellect to the international stage that I think had been lacking from Canada. And he brought us our own constitution, yes a constitution with challenges, but one that is ours none the less. Yes he had charisma, many will say that is all he had, but he had it in spades and the Canadian public bought into that hook, line and sinker, for 14 years.
But what I really admire about him is the fact that he governed according to his principles. Right, many dont think he had principles, that he was arrogant and part of that might be true. But this is what I am trying to say. I mean that no matter how unpopular some of these principles of his were, no matter how unpopular some of the bills he brought before Parliament were, he finished what he started, without all of the garbage polling that goes on today. In other words, he had some spine, perhaps too much according to some people.
Now what I really admire about him is how he raised his children. Yes, we dont see inside the home, but it is pretty hard to fake stuff like that, and from what I can see, his children are intelligent, principled and have a social conscience. And he was basically a single parent running a country at the same time. Any books or articles I have ever read state over and over again that Trudeua was so proud of his children and did a wonderful job raising them. And the love in the family obviously was mutual The eulogy Justin gave for his father was one that still brings tears to my eyes today.
Dont condemn people before you know anything about them. Everyone, no matter who their father is or was, no matter what political party they run for, everyone deserves a chance to serve this country.
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Sorry you confused me when you talked about him serving his country, Trudeau served his party and his own legacy, and screwed over half the country in doing it. If the country ended at the Ontario border you could say he served his country.
And siding with Castro at the height of the cold war didn't make Canada a kinder and gentler nation, it made it a foolish nation. Yep I remember that this was the same Castro that begged Kruschev for permission to launch the functional nuclear missiles at the U.S. during the missile crisis. And the same Castro that ruthelessly consolidated his hold on his nation by destroying any notion of human and civil rights in his own nation. That was sure I guy that I wanted to be siding with. Glorious.
And the bringing of those unpopular bills and ramming them through the government, that was sure a prime example of Trudeau and democracy in action.
I really don't care about how he raised his kids either. Even some of the biggest despots raised pretty decent kids, but that dosen't make the father any less of a creep.
Trudeau, the man who split the country, destroyed the military, loved siding with tyrants just so that he could say that he was anti-U.S. Oh and I forgot gave the fingers to citizen's who didn't like what he was doing, what a class act. Spent this country into a debt that we'll still be paying for long after his hair and fingersnails stop growing. Hip Hip Hooray, what a terrific guy.