What a load of bollocks. Though Cuba is bad on human rights, it's no worse than dozens of other autocratic countries with which we have or had normal diplomatic relations. Not speaking ill of the dead when their relatives and/or allies succeed them in power is simply part and parcel of that normal diplomacy.

What this is really about is some interests thinking Trudeau should have inverted that to suck up to the new Republican administration in the US. If this truly had the slightest thing to do with "Canadians being passionate about human rights" we would have seen the same sort of coordinated uproar about Stephen Harper's equally flattering post-mortem comments about the Saudi king (an even worse abuser of human rights) who died in early 2015.