One of the boys grew up near the Trudeau house. The man grins naughtily, as if those were the only Masses he attended. We went to L'Eglise St. Viateur D'Outremont. The Ahuntsic boys shake their heads. This is getting too close.
Life goes on.
He said Trudeau was a good man, an intellectual. He said he risked his life because of the ideas of Trudeau. I asked him what he meant. He said he opposed the break-up of Yugoslavia because he understood, and agreed with, Trudeau's position on the nature of federalism, and the division of powers between the federal state and the provinces. But that was a risky position to take in Yugoslavia at the time, and he had to flee for his life.