Today in Canada’s Political History: Back from the Soviet Union, PM Trudeau sends the Americans a report describing his impressions of Soviet Leader Brezhnev
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was just back from an official visit to the Soviet Union on this date in 1971. The trip marked the first time a Canadian Prime Minister had traveled across the pole to the U.S.S.R. while in office. In Moscow, Trudeau held talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and other top-ranking leaders of the totalitarian state.
Afterwards, he prepared a report on his impressions of the Soviets he had met and it was shared with our allies. In Washington, the Nixon Administration was keenly interested. “The Canadians have provided the State Department with a fairly detailed account of Brezhnev’s recent talk with Prime Minister Trudeau,” American National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger wrote in sending it along to President Richard Nixon.
You can read more of Kissinger’s interpretation of Trudeau’s report on his talks in the Soviet Union at this link:is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy.
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