Juno News - December 27, 2018Trudeau’s strange affinity for Cuba
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Summary
When it comes to Canada s role in the world stage, the Trudeau government has been quietly siding with the world s worst tyrants and human rights abusers. A new report from the independent watchdog group UN Watch issued a scathing report on Canada s voting record at the United Nation.
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you can tell a lot about a person by the company that they keep when it comes to Canada's role in
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the world stage the Trudeau government has been quietly siding with the world's worst tyrants
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and human rights abusers a new report from the independent watchdog group UN watch issued a
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scathing report on Canada's voting record at the United Nations here's a quote from that report
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Canada broke with the free world and joined Syria Iran and North Korea by voting no on eight
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separate measures that sought to hold Cuba accountable for widespread human rights violations
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on issues of basic rights and freedoms including freedom of expression workers rights and political
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freedoms Canada has failed to join other western liberal democracies in condemning Cuba instead
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our diplomats have sided with the oppressive communist regime Trudeau's representatives at the United
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Nations even failed to join a motion calling for gender equality in Cuba look when the world's top
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male feminist shies away from the opportunity to lecture others about gender you know something's
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not right and it isn't just at the UN the Trudeau government has shamelessly ignored abuse and
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sided with Cuba over the past year and a half mysterious sonic attacks have been waged against
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Canadian and American diplomats and their families living in Havana this left many with brain injuries
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and symptoms like gushing nosebleeds intense nausea and incapacitating headaches both countries have
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recalled their diplomatic staff but while the US has loudly and openly been investigating these attacks
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and condemning Cuba Canada has remained silent the victims recently spoke out about their treatment
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in a Globe and Mail report revealing that the Trudeau government failed to acknowledge their concerns
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or protect their safety here's a quote from one of the Canadian diplomats involved in all this we did not
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expect to be abandoned or more precisely sacrificed but that's how we're feeling now according to the
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Globe report several diplomats agreed that the Trudeau government quote considers it strategically important
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to maintain a comparatively close relationship with Cuba's communist regime for trade and political reasons
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unquote trade Cuba is a poor country with a planned socialist economy most Cuban businesses are owned and
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operated by the communist government or its rogue military Canadians who visit Cuba may not realize it
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but Cuba's hotel industry is run almost entirely to the benefit of the Cuban military that means that your
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tourism dollars are going towards guns and bullets used to persecute political prisoners and kill innocent people
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and when it comes to Canada's trade partners Cuba is insignificant they rank 47th on the list of countries
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importing Canadian products so why is Canada going out of its way to befriend this military dictatorship
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well according to the anonymous diplomat that was interviewed in that Globe and Mail story
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the Trudeau government doesn't want to upset Cuba why here's a quote because of Canada's bid for a UN
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security council seat well there you go in other words the Trudeau government is so desperate to be part of
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this UN in crowd a group of corrupt elitist power hungry bureaucrats that is willing to sacrifice on our
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core Canadian principles when the ruthless dictator Fidel Castro finally died in 2016 most Cubans celebrated
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I know because I was reporting from Little Havana in Miami Florida that day there were thousands of Cubans
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gathered in the streets they were dancing singing and showing their support for freedom and reform in Cuba
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the tyrant who had ruthlessly killed innocent people broken up families and destroyed a country was
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finally dead and the Cuban people were celebrating well that same day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued an
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appalling and tone-deaf statement praising Fidel Castro calling him a larger-than-life leader and spreading
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propaganda about his record as Cuba's long-standing and much-hated dictator Trudeau's strange affinity
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for Cuba and his willingness to turn a blind eye to Cuba's repeated belligerence is a disgrace to all
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Canadians for the true north initiative I'm Candice Malcolm