Zolf's latest CBC article clearly explains why this recent idiocy about Trudeau being a fascist anti-Semite does little but prove Mulroney's wheels don't turn properly: "it may come as a surprise to Mulroney, but nobody in Quebec — or anybody else in Canada — cared about the Jews being slaughtered in Europe."
"Mulroney's notion that all Quebecers and Canadians, young and old, saw the Second World War as a fight against Nazism and as a way of saving Europe's Jews is hogwash — highly emotional and very unscholarly. Quite simply, saving the Jews from the Nazis was not an issue at all in 1939... in Quebec in 1939, anti-Semitism was the norm: Trudeau, at age 20, felt no particular sympathies toward the Jews. As well, Trudeau was staunchly anti-British at that time."
Many of Trudeaus' mentors were Jewish, including Kohn, Kadourie and Laski. He appointed many Jews to top positions as well. He just wasn't a Zionist. He didn't support ethnic nationalism in any form, which also explains his evolved stance on Quebec. He moved away from his initial sympathies with Quebec nationalists who "dreamed of a separate Quebec, a state that would be all French, all Catholic and corporatist — fascist, if you like."
"Mulroney's notion that all Quebecers and Canadians, young and old, saw the Second World War as a fight against Nazism and as a way of saving Europe's Jews is hogwash — highly emotional and very unscholarly. Quite simply, saving the Jews from the Nazis was not an issue at all in 1939... in Quebec in 1939, anti-Semitism was the norm: Trudeau, at age 20, felt no particular sympathies toward the Jews. As well, Trudeau was staunchly anti-British at that time."
Many of Trudeaus' mentors were Jewish, including Kohn, Kadourie and Laski. He appointed many Jews to top positions as well. He just wasn't a Zionist. He didn't support ethnic nationalism in any form, which also explains his evolved stance on Quebec. He moved away from his initial sympathies with Quebec nationalists who "dreamed of a separate Quebec, a state that would be all French, all Catholic and corporatist — fascist, if you like."
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