On his recent trip to the People’s Republic of  China, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a “landmark” deal to allow 49,000 Chinese electric cars into Canada at reduced rates in exchange for China lowering tariffs on canola and other agricultural products—hardly an even trade.

Nevertheless, Carney reported he was “heartened by the leadership of President Xi Jinping and the speed with which our relationship has progressed.” Canada and China, he said, “will deepen our engagement on improved global governance.”

Carney’s Sino-swoon repeats the performance of a previous Canadian prime minister who had a back story unknown to many Americans.

“Pierre Trudeau opted not to serve in World War II, although of age and in good health,” David Frum wrote in Canada’s National Post in 2011. In 1952, Trudeau traveled the Soviet Union to attended an economic conference staged by Stalin, Frum noted. The timing of that trip was critical. Stalin maintained control of Eastern Europe, ramped up the persecution of writers and artists, and swung the USSR and its captive states back to their traditional anti-Semitism, dubbing Jews “rootless cosmopolitans.” Stalin’s repressions drove many to leave the Communist Party, following others who left after the April 1945 Duclos declaration that ended the wartime alliance against Hitler. Many others had departed after Stalin’s pact with Hitler in 1939, never to return. By contrast, Pierre Trudeau returned from the 1952 conference a true believer in Soviet Communism.

“He wrote in praise of Mao’s murderous regime in China,” Frum recalled, and praised Soviet projects built by “slave labor.” More importantly, “as prime minister, Trudeau, to the extent he could, tried to reorient Canada away from the great democratic alliance.” The world-class “wrecker” allowed the USSR to sell the Soviet Lada automobile in Canada, starting in southern Ontario, the center of Canada’s auto industry. Like all cars produced by Communism, the Lada was an inferior vehicle that made few inroads in a competitive market. That failed to dampen Trudeau’s affection for Communist dictatorships, and the PM would gain special protection.

During the 1950s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) functioned as Canada’s intelligence service, working closely with the American FBI. In June 1984, under Prime Minister Trudeau, Canada created the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to replace the RCMP. In 1989, under “progressive conservative” Brian Mulroney, the CSIS destroyed files on Trudeau’s Stalinist days, instead of placing them in the national archives.

That year at Tiananmen Square, China confirmed that it was still a murderous regime. As The Black Book of Communism would show, it was responsible for some 60 million deaths, far exceeding the murders of Stalin and Hitler. That cut no ice with Trudeau, the “bad man and disastrous prime minister,” as Frum had it, who passed away in September of 2000. Jump ahead to November 2013.

“There’s a level of admiration I actually have for China,” Justin Trudeau proclaimed. “Their basic dictatorship is actually allowing them to turn their economy around on a dime.” Two years later, Trudeau fils was elected prime minister, and by then, China’s  dictatorship had made considerable inroads. 

Canada put Chinese national Dr. Xiangguo Qiu in charge of pathogens at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg. From that Level 4 lab, Qiu transferred a host of deadly pathogens, including the Nipah virus, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and from 2017-18 made at least five trips to the WIV, which works with China’s military. When the COVID virus made its way from Wuhan to North America, Trudeau imposed a rigid lockdown  regime, debanking peacefully protesting truckers and harassing their supporters.

By that time, China was setting up police stations in Canada to monitor Chinese Canadians and sending ghost ships into Arctic waters. The Communist regime also kidnapped Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor as retaliation for Canada’s arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive with Huawei, and the Chinese government slapped tariffs on Canadian agricultural exports. That Carney brushed it all aside should come as no surprise. 

Mark Carney is a disciple of John Kenneth Galbraith, a socialist masquerading as an economist, and like Pierre Trudeau, a big fan of the USSR.  “It is evident that the Soviet economy has made great material progress in recent years,” Galbraith wrote in 1984, when Soviet failures were obvious to all but the willfully blind. Mark Carney’s plan to bring Chinese EVs into Canada would delight California Governor Gavin Newsom, who also admires China’s  dictatorship.

In 2020, Newsom announced that by 2035, electric vehicles would account for all new car and light truck sales in his state. China’s major EV manufacturer is Build Your Dreams (BYD).  In March of 2020, Newsom declared a state of emergency in California. In April, he announced a no-bid $1 billion deal for masks with BYD, which did not make protective equipment. As Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter show in Fool’s Gold: The Radicals and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All, Newsom’s longstanding partnerships with China are now embedded in his Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-biz.

On Newsom’s watch as mayor, San Francisco became an open-air latrine, but in 2023, Newsom cleaned up the streets and ensured the visiting Xi Jinping was not disturbed by pro-democracy protesters. If the Communist dictatorship ever did anything  Newsom opposed, it’s hard to know what it might be.

The coiffed Californian, with ties to the Brown, Pelosi, and Getty families, would like to be president of the United States. His EV mandate prefigures what a President Newsom would do by flooding the USA with Chinese EVs. Damage to the U.S. auto industry would be of no concern to Newsom, a world-class wrecker who has already transformed California from a place where people want to reside to a place they want to leave. To avoid that outcome on a national scale, Newsom should be made to register as an official agent of PRC companies under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Gavin Newsom and Mark Carney replicate Pierre and Justin Trudeau’s approval of leftist totalitarian government. If Americans and Canadians regarded them as China’s colonial officials, it would be hard to blame them.