At the beginning of his first official trip to Africa, Justin Trudeau's message on human rights seemed to be taking hold. And what did Justin Trudeau, currently in the midst of a rights themed-trip, have to say about Castro's well-known human rights violations? Hundreds of people have been detained just for expressing dissent or defending human rights, Amnesty said. Yes there were "human rights questions," but he steered each question back to not Castro's record but his own. Certainly, he said, Canadians knew that he always talked about human rights abroad.

Source: CBC News November 28, 2016 09:56 UTC