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Justin Trudeau, our starry-eyed progressive prime minister, gave a nice warm send-off when his old friend Fidel Castro checked out in 2016, talking niceties rather than about Castro’s thousands of murders and outright executions, his imprisonment of hundreds upon hundreds of dissidents, and his revolutionary creation of Cuba as his own communist island.

Never speak ill of the dead, his dear old momma likely told him.

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And so Trudeau, in part, said this: “While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for ‘el Comandante’…”

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Compare that to the realism of Rona Ambrose, then the interim leader of the Conservatives.

Ambrose, in part, said this: “Under his rule, thousands were impoverished, thousands were imprisoned and executed, and free speech, thought and assembly were curtailed or banned, all to live up to his version of ‘socialism’…”