The federal Liberals always used to talk about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “hidden agenda” to remake Canada in his image.

So today, let’s discuss Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s open agenda to remake Canada in his.

The first hint came when Trudeau told The New York Times Magazine in December, 2015, that, “there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada,” which makes us “the first postnational state.”

Trudeau did add that Canadians have “shared values” such as “openness, respect, compassion, willingness to work hard, to be there for each other, to search for equality and justice.”

But in Trudeau’s “postnational” Canada, none of these “shared values” are important enough, apparently, for us to screen potential immigrants and refugees for, to see if they share them as well.

Remember the Liberal (and Red Tory) hysteria when Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch suggested we do that?

Once you understand this about Trudeau, everything he says and does with regard to his concept of Canada becomes understandable.

For example when, in 2011, as a Liberal MP, Trudeau attacked the Conservative government for including in its Discover Canada guide for immigrants that, “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.”

Trudeau berated the Conservatives for using the term “barbaric” saying it fell short of “responsible neutrality.”

Taken aback by the outrage his criticism provoked across Canada, Trudeau quickly backtracked and apologized.

Except, now we learn, through The Canadian Press, that with Trudeau as PM, a draft version of the reworked Discover Canada guide which the Liberals haven’t released yet, reportedly removes any reference to “barbaric cultural practices.”

Trudeau has also overturned legislation passed by Harper stripping Canadian citizenship from dual citizens convicted of terrorism, treason or espionage.

As Trudeau explained during the 2015 election, “the Liberal Party believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship...Because I do. And I’m willing to take on anyone who disagrees with that.”

Well, of course. Because if your mindset is, as Trudeau says, that “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” even if, as a dual citizen, they commit treason or kill our soldiers, then naturally you believe they should keep their citizenship in a “postnational” Canada.

This also explains Trudeau’s July 1 Canada Day message on our 150th anniversary, that he’s “jealous” of immigrants who choose to come to Canada because they care more about it than natural-born Canadians who are, “Canadian by default.”

Again, of course – because in Trudeau’s “postnational” Canada, it’s BETTER to come from somewhere else.

Similarly, a PM who believes in a “postnational” Canada with “no core identity, no mainstream” isn’t going to be overly concerned about would-be refugees flooding across our border from the U.S. at such an alarming rate, that we have to house them in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.

Nor prone to contest a lawsuit by a Canadian citizen suing us for $20 million (Trudeau agreed to give Omar Khadr $10.5-million and an apology) even though Khadr was radicalized not by us, but by his family, and imprisoned not by us, but by the U.S., after a firefight with American troops in Afghanistan.

Because in Trudeau’s “postnational” Canada, that’s not on his agenda.

lgoldstein@postmedia.com