Two Innocents in Red China

Born in 1923, Jacques Hebert is a Canadian author, journalist, publisher, politician and world traveller who has visited more than 130 countries. He was Senator from 1983 to 1998. Hebert founded two Quebec publishing houses, Editions de l'Homme and Editions du Jour, and Canada World Youth and Katimavik; he went on a 21-day hunger strike when the latter program was scrapped in 1987. He recently returned from an extended stay in Cuba to Montreal, where he lives.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Prime Minister of Canada from April, 1968 to June, 1979, and from March, 1980 to June, 1984. He died in 2000.

Alexandre Trudeauis the second son of the late Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau. Born on Christmas day, 1973, he was raised in Montreal and obtained a philosophy degree from McGill University. A film-maker and contributing editor at Maclean's magazine, he has reported from Iraq, Liberia, Haiti, and Israel. He covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq from Baghdad, producing a sixty-minute documentary for CTV, Embedded in Iraq. For The Fence, his following documentary, Alexandre lived with two families on opposing sides of the new wall between Israel and the Palestinian territories. A director of Canada World Youth and of the Trudeau Foundation, Trudeau has recently focused attention on the abuse of civil liberties inherent in the Canadian government's use of security certificates to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely, without trial, based on secret evidence. He lives in Montreal.