Canadians in Latvia keep calm & carry on with massive Russian military exercise

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Latvia and Lithuania are amongst the fastest-growing economies in the EU. The countries are so wealthy economically that, along with Estonia, they are collectively known as the Baltic Tiger. In 2006-07, the Latvian economy grew at 10%. In 2011, just after the financial crisis, its economy still managed 5.5% growth. Lithuania's economy grew 11.1% in 2007. GDP per capita in Lithuania is 70% above the world's average of $10,500. Lithuania is ranked 24th in the world in the Ease of Doing Business Index prepared by the World Bank Group and 15th out of 178 countries in the Index of Economic Freedom, measured by The Heritage Foundation.

Oh....so there are financial reasons for Russia to grab Baltic States! But what does that have to do with Our idiot Boy Justin refusing to aid our NATO allies in any way and goi9ng out of his way to cause security issues with United States- our largest trading partner.

Yankees had 3000 dead in World Trade Centre attack and are spending major money helping oppose ISIS butchers. If Yankees were not in that game life would be MUCH HARDER in dictator ridden Middle East.

So why does Our idiot Justin want to return Cdn citizenship to CONVICTED Muslim terrorists? Just to screw with Uncle Sam and to hell with our formerly open border and good trade?

And I note that NO LIE-beral has stepped forward to explain just how Canada would benefit from letting a convicted terrorist stay here!
 

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Russian-language propagandists are taking aim at Canada's military mission to Latvia by linking the troops to the army's most disgraced commander.

A website with the same name as a prominent Russian news program has re-published infamous photos of convicted killer Russell Williams wearing women's underwear, suggesting the Canadian army is full of homosexuals and shouldn't be counted on by Latvians.

The article appeared on a Russian-language news site called Vesti.lv, which is also the name of a TV news show in Russia.

The story mocks Canada's military mission in Latvia with the headline, "The Gay Battlegroup: NATO has dug into Latvia."

It goes on to say that the U.S. has the only worthwhile military in the Baltics and all the others — including Canada — are "deeply comical."

The first wave of 450 Canadian soldiers, led by Col. Josh Major, arrived in Latvia this past weekend as part of a mission to deter any Russian aggression in the Baltic region.

Major says the anti-Canada propaganda is "not unexpected."

"We can't stop people from using the internet and posting and blogging, but we can be aware of what they are doing and, when appropriate, take action to set the record straight," Major said, adding that Williams's crimes were "appalling" and not representative of Canada's military.

A Latvian expert in Russian propaganda against NATO, Col. Ilmars A. Lejins, says every country in the alliance with troops in the region has been targeted, and Canada should expect the internet assault to continue.

"It happened to German troops deployed in Lithuania, British troops in Estonia, it happened to American troops deployed in Poland," he told CBC News at Camp Adazi, where NATO has set up its base.

Latvia is awash with over-the-air Russian TV and radio programs and a number of pro-Kremlin blogs and websites disseminate multiple stories every day that cast the NATO military alliance in a bad light.

"You don't need guns anymore, all you need is an army of shrewd youngsters, who are the trolls and bloggers that produce this sort of content," said Rita Rudasa, of the Baltic Centre for Media Excellence in Riga.

Another story from the well-known pro-Putin website Sputnik was a translation of a CBC News report filed earlier this week after visiting a market in central Riga.

It jumped on the idea that a large number of Latvians who talked to the CBC were against the NATO deployment in the country.

In fact, the article suggested a majority of Latvians supported the mission but there were also dissent.

Anti-Canada propaganda greets troops in Latvia - World - CBC News
 

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In fact, the article suggested a majority of Latvians supported the mission but there were also dissent.

25% of the Latvian population is ethnic Russian.

No surprise not everyone is happy they are there.
 

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No, I contemplated volunteering for one, once.

That's not really the same thing as sending a piece of an infantry brigade into possibly having to oppose a mass invasion. That sort of situation did not come up in very many of those 50+ peace keeping missions.

LMAO... such a hero.
 

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They probably think Russia is as bad at killing civilians as NATO is.
 

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Re: Canadians in Latvia keep calm & carry on with massive Russian military exercise

Russian-language propagandists are taking aim at Canada's military mission to Latvia by linking the troops to the army's most disgraced commander.

A website with the same name as a prominent Russian news program has re-published infamous photos of convicted killer Russell Williams wearing women's underwear, suggesting the Canadian army is full of homosexuals and shouldn't be counted on by Latvians.

The article appeared on a Russian-language news site called Vesti.lv, which is also the name of a TV news show in Russia.

The story mocks Canada's military mission in Latvia with the headline, "The Gay Battlegroup: NATO has dug into Latvia."

It goes on to say that the U.S. has the only worthwhile military in the Baltics and all the others — including Canada — are "deeply comical."

The first wave of 450 Canadian soldiers, led by Col. Josh Major, arrived in Latvia this past weekend as part of a mission to deter any Russian aggression in the Baltic region.

Major says the anti-Canada propaganda is "not unexpected."

"We can't stop people from using the internet and posting and blogging, but we can be aware of what they are doing and, when appropriate, take action to set the record straight," Major said, adding that Williams's crimes were "appalling" and not representative of Canada's military.

A Latvian expert in Russian propaganda against NATO, Col. Ilmars A. Lejins, says every country in the alliance with troops in the region has been targeted, and Canada should expect the internet assault to continue.

"It happened to German troops deployed in Lithuania, British troops in Estonia, it happened to American troops deployed in Poland," he told CBC News at Camp Adazi, where NATO has set up its base.

Latvia is awash with over-the-air Russian TV and radio programs and a number of pro-Kremlin blogs and websites disseminate multiple stories every day that cast the NATO military alliance in a bad light.

"You don't need guns anymore, all you need is an army of shrewd youngsters, who are the trolls and bloggers that produce this sort of content," said Rita Rudasa, of the Baltic Centre for Media Excellence in Riga.

Another story from the well-known pro-Putin website Sputnik was a translation of a CBC News report filed earlier this week after visiting a market in central Riga.

It jumped on the idea that a large number of Latvians who talked to the CBC were against the NATO deployment in the country.

In fact, the article suggested a majority of Latvians supported the mission but there were also dissent.

Anti-Canada propaganda greets troops in Latvia - World - CBC News

Gee....Russians hoping to hurt the feelings of Cdns and to dismay Latvians...no surprise in that! Whats really a surprise is that Our idiot Boy Trudope let the troops go! After all, the Trudope family has a LONG history of hating the West! Consider:
There are those in Canada who desperately do not wish be believe that the Trudeau family are a pack of wretched communist revolutionaries seeking to permanently change AND DAMAGE Canada. These willfully blind Trudope supporters IGNORE all manner of evidence and cherry pick through the historical record-routinely discarding any information that does not reflect nicely through their rose coloured glasses!

LIE-berals and their followers do not wish to believe the historical record supplied by Max and Nadine Nemni-long time friends of Pierre Trudeau and staunch LIE-beral supporters. As such they were given privileged access to the voluminous writings of Our Pet. What they found about their long time friend during their writing of his biography prompts them to admit we MUST re-evaluate the position of Pierre Trudope in Cdn history.

LIE-berals scoff at the idea that Our Pet was a Nazi supporter and ignore the historical record. They DENY that Our Pet rode around suburban Montreal on his Harley Davidson wearing a Nazi army uniform-and sometimes giving the finger to Jews. They claim he only went out once on a lonely Laurention side road in a Prussian army uniform he found in the attic of his parents house-just a prank the apologists say. But such a claim defies credibility! LIE-beral defense of Trudope is laughable!

German prisoners of war were not shipped to Canada during the first world war as there was no reason to do so-they were put to work on farms and such in France and Britain. And even if some German prisoners were sent to Canada on what grounds would a Trudope purchase TWO uniforms from them and store them in the attic for 20 years.

But during the second world war-German prisoners were very frequently sent to Canada to prevent them from starting an uprising if German forces should invade Britain. With masses of Germans being sent to Canada it would be quite easy to pick up a uniform or two as temporary Nazi supporter Trudope has obviously done.

LIE-berals pick on a couple of reports that say Trudope appeared only once or twice out in the country in his `Prussian` (WW1) uniform and they IGNORE other eye witness accounts of Trudope being spotted repeatedly IN Montreal in his NAZI (WW2) uniform. We may be assured that LIE-berals want to believe the best of their `hero` and so will ignore unpleasant reports no matter how reliable they may be!

Our Pet was a hard core communist and the Nemni`s document Pierre LEADING Cdns and others to meet with Soviet leaders in Moscow on several occasions. The Soviets signed a non aggression pact with Germany and this meant that Hitler became an ally of Stalin-and thus earned Trudope support. Hence, the repeated Trudope stunts in the German uniform. The Nemni`s document AND QUOTE the Trudope hostility to the `imperialist war` of Britain (and Canada) against Hitler. Soviet and Trudope friendship with Hitler ended once Nazis invaded Soviet Union.

In 1947, Trudeau was a student at the London School of Economics, founded by the Fabian Society. In the late 19th century the Fabian Society boasted an impressive list of members dedicated to alleviating conditions in what Charles Dickens referred to as the “dark satanic mills” of 19th century industrial Britain-the Fabians did good work in a time of non existent safety equipment, frequent use of child labour and repeated worker exposure to dangerous chemicals and unhealthy situations-clearly changes needed to be made! Fabian founders included H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw.

Sadly-the original members-responsible and sensible members of society-wanting a balanced and sensible economic operation died and were replaced by Soviet Moles- wolves in sheep’s clothing. The Fabian Society and its London School of Economics became a breeding ground for training Marxists. Professor Harold Laski, then head of the Fabian Society, was publicly advocating violent revolution at the time.

Almost twenty years later, Trudeau, about to become Prime Minister, reflected on his training and told reporter Norman DePoe that Laski is,

"the most stimulating and powerful influence he has encountered."

Its odd how many foolish things Our Pet blurted out without harming his career-and its proof that LIE-berals are far more interested in power than integrity! In the 1950`s Trudope told Toronto Telegram reporter Lubor Zink that if he became prime minister he “would take Canada from the past into the future via the route of radical socialism”.

Self professed life long LIE-beral supporter/journalist Peter Newman states in his book- When the Gods Changed-that the LIE-beral party lost the first election (with Paul Martin as leader) to Stephen Harper because the LIE-beral party no longer stands for anything except power and self promotion”! The same LIE-beral absence of values or real economic plan hampered Dion and Ignatieff in their runs for power. Sadly the current crop of LIE-berals have come to power thanks to their willingness to BUY civil service Working Family votes! When in doubt-BRIBE! This is what LIE-beral friends say of the party so its no wonder that others are much less complimentary!


Trudope traveled widely and under mysterious circumstances between 1950 and 1960. Apparently, he visited Communist Yugoslavia. He was in the Middle East during the first Arab-Israeli war. He was in Shanghai when Mao Tse-tung took over. Trudope made some strange allies in that time.

. In 1949, Trudope got a job as an economic advisor to the Privy Council in Ottawa. Igor Gouzenko, the Soviet Embassy official who exposed Communist espionage activities in Canada after World War II, says Trudeau got that job with the help of Robert Bryce, who was Clerk of the Privy Council at the time.

Bryce had earlier served in Washington, says Gouzenko, where he belonged to a Communist study group and was a close friend of Soviet spy Alger Hiss. Trudope also spent time in Paris with Canadian Gérard Pelletier, who was then with World University Service, he says,

"giving American money to countries that were about to go Communist."

(Maclean's, February 24, 72.)

LIE-berals debunk statements made by Gouzenko about Soviet moles in Cdn govt and point out there is no proof of Soviet affiliation. They IGNORE reality-Gouzenko spilled such a mass of secrets to his RCMP handlers they sought help from Britain. The head of M.I. 6 at the time was Kim Philby-exposed a decade later as a Soviet mole! Philby debunked virtually all that Gouzenko told the RCMP and by the time Philby was exposed (and had fled to MOSCOW) the moles had either retired or simply died of old age. And Trudope was well on his way to being prime minister-and of being in control of all files related to Soviet activity thanks to his govt allies and fellow travelers/moles!

It is proven fact that Cdns GAVE Moscow the formula for making an atomic bomb in late 1945. Contacts between Cdns and Moscow were extensive and Moscow was also given the date of the D-day Normandy invasion in gross violation of security at the time.

In Montreal, in 1951, Trudeau and Pelletier began to publish a magazine they called Cité Libre, in which they carried the commentaries of various distinguished intellectuals.

There was Professor Raymond Boyer, for instance, who earlier had been exposed by Gouzenko and convicted of Soviet espionage. There was frequent contributor Pierre Gélinas, Quebec Director of Agitation and Propaganda for the Communist Party. There was Stanley B. Ryerson, leading theoretician of the Communist Party and editor of Marxist Review.

In 1951, the Communist World Peace Council, and the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions, then run by V.V. Kuznetsov of Soviet Intelligence, began planning an international economic conference to be held the next year in Moscow.

Indeed, so obvious was the nature of the forthcoming conference that in December, 1951, then-Canadian Justice Minister Stuart Garson warned all Cabinet Ministers that it was a Communist operation, and advised that government employees should not attend.

The conference was held in April, 1952. Of the 471 delegates, 132 were from officially Communist countries. Observers at the time estimated that 300 of the remaining 339 were known or suspected Party members - which left 39 or so for window dressing.

Marcus Leslie Hancock, one of the six delegates from Canada, says the Canadian delegation was organized by the Canadian Communist Party, which also paid the delegates' bills. Hancock, then a Communist, says that everyone else he knew in the delegation was also a Party member.

The report of that conference, printed in Moscow, is now very hard to get. All copies in Canadian libraries have disappeared. One of the delegates was Pierre-Elliott Trudeau-the Nemni`s state that because Trudeau's name appears first in the list of Cdn delegates, it means he headed the Communist delegation. In their biography of Trudope they supply photos of the Moscow delegates including Our PET.

Trudeau apparently was inspired in Moscow. He couldn't wait to get home, where he began writing pro-Soviet articles. He couldn't understand why Le Droit (Ottawa) and L'Action Catholique (Quebec City) began calling him a Communist.

All he had done was attend a Communist meeting in Moscow as a guest of the Communist Party at the head of a Communist delegation. All he was doing now was publishing his thanks.

Former Communist Marcus Hancock has testified that the Canadian delegation, headed by Trudeau, was organized by Canada's Communist Party, which paid the delegates' bills. Hancock, himself a delegate, says everyone he knew in the delegation was a Party member.

Trudope and his pal Jacques Hebert traveled to Red China at a time when only staunch, TRUSTED Communists were permitted entry. He met his idol, Mao Tse-tung. He collaborated on a book called Two Innocents In Red China. (Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1968.)

Trudeau describes his meeting with the Communist leaders in his book like this:
"...It is a stirring moment: these greybeards, in their ripe old age, embody today the triumph of an idea, an idea that has turned the whole world upside down and profoundly changed the course of human history."

Of the greybeard (Mao) who has murdered more than 30 million Chinese, Trudeau says:

"...Mao Tse-tung, one of the great men of the century, has a powerful head, an unlined face, and a look of wisdom tinged with melancholy. The eyes in that tranquil face are heavy with having seen too much of the misery of men."

Trudeau goes on to say: "Everyone knows that the Communists summarily rushed to the gallows or to jail many of the great landed proprietors. It was the genius of Mao Tse-tung to realize the extent to which his revolution must depend on the peasants, and he mercilessly suppressed the class that inspired in these peasants awe, respect, and submissiveness towards outworn traditions." In his book Trudeau not only justifies Mao Tse-tung's mass murders - he applauds them. They are good, he says. They are necessary. They prove Mao's genius.

Trudope loves to travel. He was in Ghana when Communist Kwame Nkrumah took control. He was in Algeria when Communist Ahmed Ben Bella took over. Early in 1961, at about the time of the Bay of Pigs, the U.S. Coast Guard picked him up.

Pierre was paddling a canoe to Cuba from Key West. The Coast Guard deported Pierre to Canada, but he did get to Cuba in 1964, after all. He doesn't say what happened there. Neither does Fidel. What we do know is that Trudope son Sasha has written a gag inducing `love letter` to his old pal and blood stained Soviet dictator Castro that was published (with a straight face) in our Toronto (Red) Star newspaper and the Sasha letter was then neatly lampooned in The National Post!

One may ask: so what if Trudope was a communist? Firstly-Trudope did his best to bankrupt Canada as a way of weakening the country and reducing its influence in the world. He also persuaded his sons to pursue his mad dream of socialist utopia. This is why our prime minister-that Boy with nice hair-for brains has stated he admires the Red Chinese party-he has his fathers enthusiasm for bloody Marxist dictators! Further Our Brainless Boy is running up THIRTY BILLION DOLLAR deficits in Ottawa-these are crippling debts which Boy HOPES will cause IMPERIAL Canada to collapse and be susceptible to being rebuilt in a Trudope socialist version of utopia!

In 1963, Trudope campaigned (as a candidate) with the New Democratic Party against the Liberals. At the time Trudope called the Liberals "idiots" because they had decided to allow United States to set up its nuclear missile warning system in Cdn north. The Liberals, he said, were "a spineless herd." And yet-after the election and recognizing that NDP had NO chance of forming a federal govt, Trudope found his way over to the LIE-beral party! And quickly became LEADER of the `spineless herd`! No wonder even LIE-berals like Peter Newman are bemoaning the total lack of LIE-beral morals or values! And no wonder Our Pet so often seemed to be sneering when he net the adoring public-he WAS laughing at the gullible sheeple!
 

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Wow!



... needs Prozac ...
 

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I can see why you would need some but why let that info out on the boards.
 

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Wow!



... needs Prozac ...

Why it matters: I present here an older column written by Ezra Levant along with some comments of my own in brackets):

Bad advice: Think Justin Trudeau’s instincts are scary? Take a look at what two of his advisers have to say

By Ezra Levant, QMI Agency. First posted: Saturday, April 27, 2013 08:00 AM EDT

Justin Trudeau. (Jean-Francois Desgagnes/QMI Agency)

What are Justin Trudeau’s foreign policy views, especially about the threat of Islamic terrorism?

Two years ago, Trudeau criticized the new citizenship guide for new immigrants, called Discover Canada. One passage in that guide book said, “Canada’s openness and generosity do not extend to barbaric cultural practices that tolerate spousal abuse, ‘honour killings,’ female genital mutilation, forced marriage or other gender-based violence.”

Pretty tough to disagree with that. But Trudeau did. He said, “There needs to be a little bit of an attempt at responsible neutrality” by the Canadian government. Honour killings shouldn’t be called “barbaric,” he said.

(I say what else can we expect from the son of Our Pet-the man who publicly stated that Britain and Canada going to war against Adolf Hitler was `imperialist`-as documented by his chosen biographers and long time former friends Max and Monique Nemni! The Trudeau`s-father and sons do not like western democracy and want to tear it down! Father Pierre Trudeau certainly wrote enough on the subject and frequently complimented scholars who argued in favour of violent revolution at places such as the socialist London School of Economics.)

Same thing a while ago, when Peter Mansbridge asked Trudeau about the Boston bombings. His thoughts were not with the victims, but rather the perpetrators. “We have to look at the root causes,” he said. “But there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded … We also have to monitor and encourage people to not point fingers at each other.”

Three were dead and close to 200 injured, but Trudeau was more concerned about finger-pointing.

(I say the bombers came to United States as very small children from Chechnya-a small Muslim country on the southern Soviet border-with a LONG history of violent opposition to Soviet rule. After the breakup of Soviet Union. U.S. president Clinton shrugged off Chechen appeals for help against Soviets re-conquering their land-Clinton refused as he feared further destabilizing Russia.)

(Is it not ironic that all Trudopes scorn Yankee imperialists and yet when Yankees sit on their hands and ignore Soviet barbarity and Soviet threats against Chechens and the West and then when loonie toons Chechen immigrants BOMB U.S. citizens because of anger at Soviet barbarity and futile U.S. attempts at peace making, somehow Our brainless Boy prime minister thinks Yankees are to blame for `excluding` the Bombers from `society`!)

(Or we can look at the words of Pierre Trudope in his book `Two Innocents in Red China`. Our vicious Pet met with Mao Tse-tung and his senior aides and described it this way: "...It is a stirring moment: these greybeards, in their ripe old age, embody today the triumph of an idea, an idea that has turned the whole world upside down and profoundly changed the course of human history.")

(Of the `greybeard` who has murdered more than 30 million Chinese, Trudeau says: "...Mao Tse-tung, one of the great men of the century, has a powerful head, an unlined face, and a look of wisdom tinged with melancholy. The eyes in that tranquil face are heavy with having seen too much of the misery of men.". Yeah, you order the deaths of THIRTY MILLION CHINESE because they are inconvenient to your govt and I guess it would make anybody a little melancholy!)

(I say get the book and read the Trudeau B.S.. Notice that the typical Trudeau sarcasm and condescension are gone when he speaks of murderer Mao. Now the future Lord Protector of the Cdn Realm fawns and scrapes. Trudeau says: "Everyone knows that the Communists summarily rushed to the gallows or to jail many of the great landed proprietors. It was the genius of Mao Tse-tung to realize the extent to which his revolution must depend on the peasants, and he mercilessly suppressed the class that inspired in these peasants awe, respect, and submissiveness towards outworn traditions.")

(Yes, Our Pet believed that the revolution he dreamt of- that would sweep away western `imperialism`and plant HIM as Emperor must be nourished with blood-to reassure the peasants somehow! Or perhaps just to shut them up? Our Pet was fond of Chinese wisdom and he quotes Lao Tzu in his book: “Keep your mouth shut , close your eyes and ears, and you will never have any trouble. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive and you will have trouble all your life”! Apparently Mao thought the same way as he murdered so many people whom he suspected MIGHT open their mouths against him! And the sons of Our Pet were raised to think in similar fashion! Its why our brainless Boy has stated that he “likes the way the Chinese Communist party gets things done!”)

(And it was the genius of Our Pet that he could publicly applaud the murder of 30 million wealthy Chinese because they used their wealth and influence to screw ordinary peasants and control govt; and then Trudope could come home to Canada and convince our civil service Hogs-who have been using their wealth and position to screw ordinary peasants and control the govt, that the TRUDOPE family are their PALS!)

(Even worse-Our Pet has taught his sons about his `sunny ways`! Our brainless Boy prime minister can support Kyoto Accord which will bankrupt Canada if implemented and send billions of dollars to third world countries as `carbon credits` without doing a thing to improve world environment. Worse yet, he is convinced that a European style carbon trading system will be good for us somehow in spite of ten LONG years of the plan generating corruption and scams and massive economic mayhem in Europe-WITHOUT cleaning the air and he has persuaded Hogs that his idiot ideas are good for them! And Hogs are happy just so long as they get their gravy!)

(Further, our Boy has spoken often in support of radical Muslim causes, stating that we MUST accommodate them here in Canada and he has persuaded Hogs that Muslims will not one day try to take over the country and impose Sharia Law upon us as their religion DEMANDS and as Muslim groups are already working to do! And Hogs believe Our mad Boy because he has promised them rich gravy if only they will turn a blind eye to his madness!)

Another worrisome sign came last December, when Trudeau spoke at a Muslim conference in Toronto that was sponsored by IRFAN-Canada. That group had its charitable status stripped by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2011, which claims they used deceptive fund raising to send nearly $15 million to groups with ties to the terrorist group Hamas. In the subsequent media storm, IRFAN quit as a sponsor. But Trudeau accepted the invitation when they were part of it.

(And what of the members of the Muslim Caliphate that is seeking to unite ALL Muslim countries under one Muslim ruler-and of course Canada has a growing Muslim population and MUST therefore be included in the Caliphate. Our Boy is silent about this menace even though the caliphate supporters are so radical they have been BANNED in many European countries as well as BANNED many Arab countries for their extreme and frequently violent views-and yet there they were- inviting friends and allies to meet in Mississauga for another `festival` celebrating Muslim `values` a few weeks back.)

If Trudeau lacks foreign policy judgment, who are his advisers? One answer is his brother, Alexandre “Sacha” Trudeau. Sacha once wrote a bizarre column in the Toronto Star praising Fidel Castro, saying, “His intellect is one of the most broad that can be found … Combined with a Herculean physique and extraordinary courage, this monumental intellect makes Fidel the giant that he is.”

(I say revolutionary nutbar Sacha does not care that Castro is a typical hard line Soviet leader with his own string of Cuban Gulags and a batch of despised prisoners to torture-one has only to read up on life in the notorious Ilse of Pines to recognize what a bloody handed butcher Castro really is!)

Sacha is a filmmaker. He made an anti-American movie, called Embedded in Baghdad. He made an anti-Israel movie called The Fence. And his latest masterpiece is called The New Great Game, about Iran’s courageous decision to defy America and Israel. Sacha made it in co-operation with Press TV, the state-run propaganda agency of Iran.

Sacha is like Justin — a spoiled dilettante. But Trudeau’s more serious adviser is Omar Alghabra, the Saudi-born former president of the Canadian Arab Federation who briefly served as an MP from Mississauga.

At the time when world leaders were debating INCREASED sanctions against defiant Iran , Alghabra told Al Jazeera, “On the issue of Iran, Trudeau has clearly stated that he is for engagement.”

(Apparently Trudope thinks Iran will not bomb Christian Canada in the future for fear of messing up his beautiful hair?)

But that’s the thing. The world tried engagement for years. Iran played us for fools and kept building nuclear weapons. So now the world’s democracies are done engaging Iran. We tried desperately to stop them now with full-blown sanctions. (And ended up with nothing but desperate, half ass political agreements- that cannot be enforced-to protect us.) But Trudeau wants to suddenly reverse course? To reward still HOSTILE Iran with normalized relations?

Alghabra has extreme views. When he was president of the Canadian Arab Federation in 2004, he denounced Canada’s largest newspaper chain for using the term “terrorist” to describe Muslim terrorist groups like the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. He said that was a mere opinion, not a fact.

Alghabra wrote a letter to Toronto’s police chief in 2005 condemning the chief for participating in a charity walk for Israel, saying Israel was “conducting a brutal and the longest contemporary military occupation in the world.” In a letter to a journalist, he wrote the chief’s visit to Israel was comparable to visiting Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship.

When arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat died, Alghabra put out a press release announcing he was mourning for him. When Canada was setting up a no-fly list for passengers considered security threats, Alghabra opposed it.

And when Ontario narrowly rejected adopting shariah law for Muslim divorces, Alghabra was disappointed, calling it “unfortunate.”

Justin Trudeau’s instincts are wrong — on terrorism, on honour killings, on extremist groups.

But even scarier than his own instincts are those of his advisers.