Just To Remind Everyone

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In May 1939, the German liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba. The 937 passengers were almost all Jewish refugees. Cuba's government refused to allow the ship to land. The United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. The St. Louis passengers were finally permitted to land in western European countries rather than return to Nazi Germany. 254 St. Louis passengers were killed in the Holocaust.

 

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Canadians overwhelmingly supported government policy that classified Jews as foreigners who could not assimilate. They were seen as posing potential threats to the health of the nation.

 

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I have tried to shake the mental image of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, our PM’s father, riding his motorcycle around Montreal during the Second World War, and wearing a German military helmet from the war that would supposedly end all wars, all when old enough to take up arms like my father did, and his brothers, too.

But it’s been impossible.

As former British High Commissioner Lord Moran wrote of Pierre Trudeau as he was leaving Ottawa in 1984, “With some reason, he has not been greatly respected or trusted in London.

“He has never entirely shaken off his past as a well-to-do hippie and draft dodger.”

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Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health. He traveled to Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union to participate in regime-sponsored propaganda activities. He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China. Trudeau lavishly admired Fidel Castro, Julius Nyere, and other Third World dictators. The Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik scathingly recalled Trudeau’s 1971 prime ministerial visit: Trudeau visited the Siberian city of Norilsk and lamented that Canada had never succeeded in building so large a city so far north – unaware, or unconcerned, that Norilsk had been built by slave labor.

 

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The human rights group Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) called out Liberal MP Iqra Khalid for posing in a photograph with boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) protestors and a banner falsely accusing Israel of genocide. 

 

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Liberal MP Anthony Housefather says Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen was warned about anti-Semitic tweets by a government-funded anti-racism consultant before the issue was reported on widely, and that Hussen should have acted earlier to cut funding.

Heritage Canada gave a $133,000 grant to the Community Media Advocacy Centre to build an anti-racism strategy for the broadcasting sector, which it launched in April.

Last week, Canadian Press reported on anti-Semitic tweets from CMAC senior consultant Laith Marouf and said Hussen had asked Canadian Heritage to “look closely at the situation involving disturbing comments made by the individual in question.” Hussen then announced Monday that he would cut the funding to CMAC.

Before we go ga-ga over Ken Burns' attempts to whitewash Franklin Delano Roosevelt's indifference to the plight of European Jews in the Thirties. 

To wit:

Not only was US president Franklin Roosevelt perfunctory about rescuing Jews from the Nazis, but he obstructed rescue opportunities that would have cost him little or nothing, according to Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff.