The Bethune Debacle: $2.5 Million to Honour a Communist: Rod Taylor

By Rod Taylor

Even political enemies should show respect for the dead. That respect, however,  needn’t result in an inappropriate exaltation of one who damaged the world as much as Norman Bethune did.  Many of us have made mistakes in our lives; we have said and done things we later wish we could unsay or undo. I don’t know whether Norman Bethune ever gained enough understanding of the world to regret helping Mao Tse-Tung conquer China and unleash the slaughter of 60 million Chinese. But I regret that a Canadian should have been a supporter of that slaughter.  Read more... (600 words, estimated 2:24 mins reading time)