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to the streets," he explained in Montreal in 1969, because "the orientation to be givenour society is going to be decided in the street."What should we conclude about Pierre-Elliott Trudeau? Observe that it was obvioushis idol Mao was a Communist long before the New York Times finally agreed. It wasobvious that Castro was a Communist long before he announced it. It was obvious, longbefore he took over, that Ben Bella was a Communist. But the incredible fact is that inTrudeau's case the same thing is more obvious than in all the others put together.Indeed, remember that we are talking here, of course, only about the known facts.

In Montreal, a former Police Intelligence official told me that the Royal CanadianMounted Police (R.C.M.P.) over the years had collected a big file on Trudeau, but thatPierre destroyed it as soon as he could.So there really is only one conclusion to be drawn. As you know, I usually draw it

only after discovering the serial numbers of someone's Party card tattooed on hisforehead. But in this case, as we have seen, there is nothing else to say - and Pierre,after all, isn't trying very hard to hide it. I wish there were some other conclusion, butthere isn't. Pierre-Elliott Trudeau is a Communist. He has always been a Communist.He is now conspiring to impose Communist dictatorship on the people of Canada.But a perennial question arises, so let's deal with it at once: Why would a

millionaire like Pierre work all his life for Communism? Isn't he working againsthimself? If the people rise up - "from the bottom, mad with hunger and disease" and if the Revolution succeeds, won't Pierre be overthrown?And the answer, of course, as we have seen, is :'No" - because Trudeau is the

Revolution. People don't rise up from the bottom for Communism mad with hungerand disease. The Communists say they do, but they don't. They're too hungry and toosick. Communism is dictatorship - of the "proletariat" - and like every variety ofdictatorship is always pressed down on people by dictators at the top - by well-feddictators like Pierre Trudeau. What Trudeau wants - he says so himself - is power.That's what every Communist wants. Ina cafeteria on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, aMember of Parliament, and of the loyal opposition, leans across the table and tells me:"Trudeau would starve you, your family, and everyone west of Winnipeg to death, ifhe thought it meant one more ounce of political power."Three years ago, on television, Trudeau was asked which politician in history hemost admired."Machiavelli," Trudeau replied.How does a Communist like this get to be Prime Minister of Canada?

The Big SwitchIn 1963, as you will remember, Trudeau had campaigned for the Marxist New

Democrats, and had called the Liberals "idiots" and "a spineless herd." Two yearslater, in 1965, Trudeau, Gerard Pelletier and Jean Marchand, of Citi Libre, decided torun for Parliament themselves - as Liberals. In an article in Le Devoir, Trudeau andPelletier explained to the dumbfounded N.D.P. that "we are pursuing the sameobjectives and adhering to the same political ideas we have been espousing for so longin Citi Libre .... " Among these ideas was "a politics open to the left." It should beunderstood, they explained, that "a political party is not an end, but a means."Trudeau, in other words, was still working for Communism. He had become a-- 6 AMERiCAN OPINION