Trudeau joins Macron in celebrating air strikes on Syria
By
Roger Jordan
18 April 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared his full solidarity with the militarist, anti-working class policies of French President Emmanuel Macron during a two-day visit to Paris that concluded yesterday.
Just days after Macron ordered French warplanes to join US and British forces in launching illegal air strikes on Syria and in the midst of mounting working class resistance to the president’s class war domestic agenda, Trudeau went out of his way to emphasize his political kinship with Macron—underscoring his Liberal government’s determination to pursue like policies at home and abroad.
“We have an extremely close convergence of views,” declared Macron at a joint press conference with Trudeau Monday afternoon. For his part Trudeau enthused, “Canada, France and Europe are extremely aligned.” He specifically touted the Canada-EU free trade agreement and the bilateral deal with France on combating climate change that he and Macron signed Monday.
In a further indication of the close partnership between the two governments, the Macron government asked Trudeau to address France’s National Assembly Tuesday, a first for a Canadian prime minister and the first time that a major world leader has done so since King Felipe of Spain in 2015.
The summit underscored Trudeau’s unflinching support for imperialist violence. His Liberal government, which is pledged to increase military spending by more than 70 percent over the next decade and has expanded Canada’s role in US-led military-strategic offensives around the world, including NATO’s aggressive anti-Russia military build-up in Eastern Europe, is undoubtedly “extremely aligned” with Macron. The French government, as…