I get the personal connection between Fidel Castro and the Trudeau family.  However, I think the official Canadian response should have been much more deliberate in it's condemnation of  the regimes past and oppression of political descent. I don't buy the relativism that some in this comment section that say he was not as bad as some of his contemporaries. That's like saying Mussolini was not so bad because Hitler was worst. Arguably Hitler was not even the worst of his time either. We forget that 20 million people in the Ukraine died under Stalin during the Soviet reign. Castro was a brutal dictator - all stop... And for that the Canadian government, the people of Canada and the world should judge him harshly for that. Yes - his regime created health care and education for the masses but it was selective racially. Blacks in Cuba did not get the same as white. Let's not talk about the brutal treatment of the LGBTQ population or any political descent. He was a monster...