…from Policio…
Canada’s election sprint has begun, with six whirlwind weeks of nationwide campaigning before voters decide on Oct. 21 whether Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will get a second mandate.
Trudeau’s main challenger is Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, but individual races for 338 House of Commons seats from across the country will determine which party will form the next government.
Canada is a parliamentary democracy in the British tradition, meaning voters don’t directly select the prime minister. In order for Trudeau to maintain power, his Liberals must win the most ridings, or electoral districts, and the margin of victory will influence the form the next government takes — whether it’s a majority or a minority arrangement….
image…NPR.Org
Breaking:
Justin Trudeau wore blackface in 2001 when he was 29, at a school he was teaching at.
I think that might be au revoir for him and his time in office.
I just saw THAT….
NOT a good look….
i’ll have a post a bit later…
Trudeau shouldn’t quit until Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey quits.
I do NOT think this is automatic job killer in the era of Trumpism…
Yeah, he might get away with it. It’s Canada and he’s a leftist.
Needless to say if a conservative politician here of the same age such as a Paul Ryan or a Marco Rubio or a Ted Cruz had done it in 2001… vastly different story.
If he stays as the leader of his party though, he runs the risk of more of them going to the even further left party which has an actual turban wearing Sikh as its Leader.
It turns out it wasn’t the first time he did it.
Kay Ivey did it in the mid 1960s as a sorority girl (you remember those.)
Justin Trudeau did it in 2001, long after attitudes had changed about that sort of thing as a 29 year old teacher.
CG, In the age of Trump are you really going to cry that conservative Republicans get no pass for being racially insensitive?
Of course you are.
Like a dog with a bone.
This Trudeau stuff is of little interest to me but if it serves your conservative victimhood narrative have at it.
If somebody did what he did, they deserved criticism. This has nothing to do with Trump.
The Kay Ivey example is a very bad one though. That was an extremely long time ago (much earlier than Ralph Northam and she was a good deal younger than him too). She owned up to it and apologized. I don’t know why you would have made that comparison.
Your argument is that a conservative Republican would get crucified for doing this but liberals get a pass. .
Trump is a conservative Republican. He does far more racially insensitive things than wearing blackface decades ago.
Again this is dumb but if it makes you feel better have st it.
He doesn’t get a pass on it. Certainly not by me. You know that.
But he hasn’t work blackface (or “brownface” now when Trudeau does it)
There are 3 cases now…
31 DAYS UNTIL THE ELECTION
The 60 ridings that tell the story of where the election will be won and lost
(CBC)
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/federal/2019/battlegrounds/
A chance for CG to search through the weeds on the other banks of the Great Lakes, and predict the Tory-Liberal-NDP-Green-Bloc Québécois breakdown. (I have no idea what the People’s Party of Canada is).
CBC’s poll of polls
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/
Politics·Analysis
Federal polls show a steady race — but lots of potential for swings to come
Liberals and Conservatives still nearly tied in polls, with Liberals holding the edge in seats
Éric Grenier · CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-polls-first-week-1.5286924