Trudeau’s Great Leap
A new translation of his Chinese travel diariesprompts both admiration and concern November 2006
In September and October of 1960, future prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau became one of the very first Canadians to travel to the People’s Republic of China with official permission since the communist takeover in Trudeau visited China with his good friend Jacques Hébert (a journalist and publisher) and a few other Quebeckers, all at the invitation of a Chinese government eager to showcase its successes for the…