18 November 2007

Saint Pierre's tarnished halo

"I met Trudeau back around 1970 at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. I was a cub scout attending a jamboree and PET was the guest speaker."

"Afterwards a group of us were chosen to go backstage and meet the PM. We were waiting behind a curtain. He didn't know we were there."

"He called the crowd of cubs and scouts, "the Hitler youth of tomorrow", and spit on the ground."
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RELATED: Maybe he meant it...

As a compliment?
In the years before the end of the Second World War, the rumours were shouting, the father of our constitution was a proto-fascist, an anti-Semitic separatist busily plotting ways to take Quebec out of Canada and out of the anti-Fascist alliance fighting Nazi Germany.