Conservatives seized on the issue, with the party's leader Andrew Scheer declaring Trudeau 'not fit to govern this country.'
Liberal Party leader and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on September 11, 2019.On the heels of a blistering public corruption scandal that has weakened Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a liberal darling across the continent, the prime minister has once more found himself embroiled in a controversy related to his past decisions, this time involving the use of black- and brownface.
The top question on everyone's minds: Can the prime minister and his Liberal Party persevere through the upcoming elections, only weeks away, or will the tarnish of recent months quash his bid for re-election? Justin Trudeau is pictured in 2001 at a party with the theme of Arabian Nights wearing brownface and a turban."It doesn't have the depth of history in Canada," Annette Henry, the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education at the University of British Columbia, observed."But I think in so many ways because we are North American, so much of what happens in the United States affects what happens here.
In 2018, the prime minister was widely mocked for wearing flamboyant, Bollywood-style garb during a trip to India. For voters, this incident serves as a microcosm for examining some of the underlying contradictions within the Trudeau platform.
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