text: If you read my comments in this column, you will note that I see nothing good in Trudeau's actions here. 
  
  I'm a left-leaning person, and you just asked me. I also don't need to ask my friends and peers, because no one praises China, or would like to live in anything other than a democracy. 
  
  Classical liberals are not related to "the Left." A classical liberal would look very much like a modern business conservative-- that is, one looking for laissez-faire economics as far as possible. You confuse the borrowed policy of Liberal governments in the UK and Canada, who stole most of them from Labour and the CCF/NDP in order to remain elected. Also, liberal=Left in American parlance, since Socialism long since ceased to be a viable concern-- it is ironic to me that you adopt it here. 
  
  There are at least seven different major transformations socialists passed through to land where we are now. In the present day, not all are of a piece, no more than right-wingers are.