Thank you, he was speaking the truth, he admires a dictatorship because it can force its people to do things regardless of whether they make sense or not,whether they are good for people or not.
That is the truth now you can Continue spinning...
I don't think that's what he said, I think you are being slimy and adding on your own claims like "regardless fo whether they make sense or not", to try and discredit what he said in a totally dishonest way.
I think he was admiring the ability of Chinese leaders to do things that make sense without having to jump through a zillion regulatory hurdles and without having to pander to NIMBYism. Imagine how much money Ontario could have saved, had it been simply able to say "to hell with you Oakvillians, we're building this damn gas plant whether or not you like it". Over in China when they needed more power, they simply build the Three Gorges Dam. They just did. They flooded hundreds of villages and relocated all those people because it was in the national interest to do so. And it was -- that dam provides power that China absolutely needs. Imagine the economic benefits to Canada if the Federal government could say, "we're building this pipline through the rockies, it's in the national interest, if you don't like having a pipeline near your home, go live someplace else".
Look at what they have been able to do at the municipal level in Shanghai sometime -- in Puxi they razed entire neighbourhoods of old rickety crappy buildings and replaced them all with modern highrises, shopping centers. They tore down blocks and stuck in big wide boulevards. They build a MASSIVE number of subway lines in the same time period that Toronto has been bickering about how to get one built. Across the river in Pudong they build a world class airport, a business district with several of the tallest towers in the world and a zillion office parks, and then link them up with the world's first maglev. And they did all that in about fifteen years. Think you can do that sort of thing in Canada? Hell no. Pudong would NEVER get built, and it'll take us fifty years to build out a subway equivalent to what Shanghai put in place in ten.
I think that's what he's admiring.
Were there winners and losers? Sure. The entire population of China have been massive winners, with enormous progress in the average income. In the past ten years most people in China's Eastern provinces have gone from riding bicycles to driving motorbikes and cars. The people in the West have gone from subsisting in ramshackle huts to living in nice modern homes with electricity and running water. The homeless have gone from starving on the street, to living in shelters and receiving substantial aid. There is NO-ONE in China who is not now significantly better off than they were ten years ago.
And it's not just because China is a developing country -- India is also a developing country, with a similar sized population, and a couple of decades ago was ahead of China developmentally. China has simply eclipsed India and now has more than double the average annual income per capita.
I think this is the stuff that Trudeau admires. It is an OBVIOUS truth, and it is one that no-one generally likes to talk about -- that a non-democracy got a lot of shit right and made some real progress.
Trudeau's job right now is to reinvent the Liberal party, which was totally trashed by a lot of thieves and liars a decade ago. He is clearly following a "speak unspeakable truths" policy, advocating the stuff everybody knows we need to do and nobody wants to talk about, taking controversial but sensible positions, and saying the things nobody else has the guts to say. In part, this is because the Liberal party is in, "nothing to lose, everything to gain" territory right now.
It's a good strategy.
