{"id":1299041,"date":"2022-02-15T05:54:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T10:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299041"},"modified":"2022-02-15T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:07:35","slug":"flashback-in-2013-trudeau-chose-communist-china-as-country-he-most-admired-besides-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-in-2013-trudeau-chose-communist-china-as-country-he-most-admired-besides-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: In 2013, Trudeau Chose Communist China As Country He Most Admired Besides Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fflashback-in-2013-trudeau-chose-communist-china-as-country-he-most-admired-besides-canada%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299041&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1041029930-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Now that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has authorized the Canadian government\u2019s use of the Emergencies Act, giving the government much broader powers to deal with anti-vaccine mandate protests in his country, it might be useful to recall that in 2013, asked what country he most admired besides Canada, he selected communist China, even while admitting they had a \u201cbasic dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Trudeau was asked during a \u201cLadies\u2019 Night\u201d Liberal fundraiser what country he most admired besides Canada, he answered, \u201cThere\u2019s a level of admiration I actually have for China. Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime and say, \u2018We need to go green, we want to start investing in solar.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Trudeau mocked Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, continuing, \u201cThere is a flexibility that I know Stephen Harper must dream about of having a dictatorship that he can do everything he wanted that I find quite interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When they tell you who they are, believe them.  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BuoNv874iZ\">pic.twitter.com\/BuoNv874iZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1493499803137097731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Toronto Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/torontosun.com\/opinion\/columnists\/goldstein-trudeau-said-he-admired-chinas-dictatorship-believe-him\">noted<\/a> in February 2021 how once Trudeau came to power in 2015, his government fawned over China:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Whether it was Small Business Minister Mary Ng happily tweeting about eating PEI-made ice cream in Beijing in July, 2019, or Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan shocking many participants at a Halifax security conference four months later by declaring China was not our \u201cadversary\u201d\u2014 it was always the same.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No matter how much China provoked Canada \u2014 accusing us of being white supremacists in the Meng affair and threatening the safety of Canadians in Hong Kong if they supported pro-democracy demonstrators \u2014 the Trudeau government love for China continued.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60381096\">BBC<\/a> explained about Trudeau\u2019s authorization of the Emergencies Act, \u201cThe law will grant Mr. Trudeau\u2019s government extraordinary powers for 30 days \u2014 including the power to prohibit public assembly, travel and the use of specific property.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association condemned Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cancivlib\/status\/1493383579983917057\">statement<\/a> which read:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the&nbsp;Emergencies Act. This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The&nbsp;Emergencies Act&nbsp;can only be invoked, according to its own terms, when a situation \u201cseriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians and is of such proportions or nature as to exceed the capacity or authority of a province to deal with it,\u201d or \u201cseriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada\u201d and when the situation \u201ccannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The&nbsp;Emergencies Act&nbsp;is there to address these kinds of extreme threats to Canada, not to protect the economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Governments regularly deal with difficult situations, and do so using powers granted to them by democratically elected representatives. Emergency legislation should not be normalized. It threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. 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