Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau narrowly won re-election in Canada&#8217;s national elections Tuesday, as his Liberal Party held on to around 150 seats in Parliament, but failed to secure himself a Liberal majority.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50134640">The BBC reports</a> that Liberals are projected to win 157 seats &#8212; 13 short of the majority that Trudeau would have needed to continue governing with a mandate. Canada&#8217;s Conservative Party, which saw a surge in support in recent weeks, is projected to take 121 seats, a gain of around 30 seats. The Conservative Party also won the popular vote, 34% to the Liberal Party&#8217;s 33%.
Canada&#8217;s left-leaning parties, the Liberals and the New Democrats, both suffered losses, and came out of Monday night&#8217;s election with less support than they enjoyed in the last election. According to the BBC, however, the New Democrats leader, Jagmeet Singh, may become &#8220;kingmaker,&#8221; if he decides to ink a deal with Trudeau (or, less likely, Trudeau&#8217;s conservative opposition) to form a coalition government.
The big news of the night, though, was that Bloc Québécois, the province of Quebec&#8217;s separatist party, gained 20 more seats than it earned in 2015, at its previous high.
Trudeau was clearly happy with the result, which he considered, the BBC says, a referendum on his leadership, even though his Liberal Party ultimately suffered. Speaking to a crowd in his native Montreal, Trudeau claimed that Canada &#8220;rejected division and negativity &#8230; and they rejected cuts and austerity and voted in favour of a progressive agenda and strong action on climate change.&#8221;
That Trudeau pulled out a victory is an achievement in itself, however. The past year has been a rough one for Trudeau, first facing allegations that the self-proclaimed feminist had bullied a female minister out of his government after she, an attorney general, refused to pull back on prosecuting an energy company with ties to some of Trudeau&#8217;s close friends. Other female ministers made similar allegations about Trudeau&#8217;s bullying, and an ethics committee sided with the alleged victims.
Late last month, the famously woke Trudeau was broadsided by a set of photos and videos from his past, showing him dressed in racially charged costumes and made up in blackface. Trudeau was revealed to have dressed as Aladdin for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221; themed fundraiser, complete with brown makeup on his face and hands, and as singer Harry Belafonte, to perform Belafonte&#8217;s hit &#8220;Day-O&#8221; in a video.
Trudeau apologized for the incidents but had difficulty explaining how he was still dressing in racially inappropriate costumes in the early 2000s, when he was well into his twenties, and when it was abundantly clear that blackface was considered racist.
Although the incidents didn&#8217;t seem to matter to voters, they did dog Trudeau as his victory was announced. On Twitter, plenty of commentators saw a certain poetic justice in his new &#8220;minority&#8221; government.
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Jussie Trudeau is now a real minority — and he doesn’t have to wear blackface! <a href="https://t.co/u7Zkx1J8Jd">https://t.co/u7Zkx1J8Jd</a>
&mdash; Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1186482800297295872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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someone explain to Justin that minority here does not mean he has to go shoe polish shopping
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Trudeau finally gets to be a real minority.
&mdash; Game_Enders (@GameEnders1) <a href="https://twitter.com/GameEnders1/status/1186474387769180160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump weighed in on Trudeau&#8217;s victory on Twitter, wishing the Prime Minister good luck in his second term: &#8220;Congratulations to <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau" data-mentioned-user-id="14260960" data-scribe="element:mention">@JustinTrudeau</a> on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served. I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!&#8221;

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Holds Election Night Watch Party In Montreal

Justin Trudeau Wins Re-Election In Canada But Loses Majority Government

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have entered the last weekend of his re-election campaign in a neck-and-neck race with Canadian conservative party leaders, but his poll numbers weren&#8217;t the most shocking thing he encountered.
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/10/18/justin-trudeau-blackface-protesters-campaign-reelection/">TMZ reports</a> that Trudeau was dogged, Saturday and Sunday, by a group of protesters clad in &#8220;blackface&#8221; reminding attendees of Trudeau&#8217;s final campaign events that the Prime Minister dressed in very inappropriate, clearly racist costumes as recently as the early 2000s.
<section id="cb-69f8cb29df355f6db71ffa67f89c86a2" class="canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink ">&#8220;[Trudeau] was greeted by a group of protesters, at one of his stops, decked out in blackface while holding up the old blackface photos of Trudeau that threw him into a storm of controversy,&#8221; according to the entertainment news outlet. &#8220;The demonstrators also had signs reading, &#8216;We&#8217;re Aladdin Too! Orillia Blackface Club Welcomes Trudeau.'&#8221;
Justin Trudeau has been trying to make amends since photos surfaced, weeks ago, showing him in full blackface for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;-themed event in 2001. It eventually surfaced that Trudeau had donned inappropriate costumes several times in recent history, including for a video where he posed as singer Harry Belafonte for a performance of one of Belafonte&#8217;s signature songs.
At least two versions of the latter incident have surfaced, including a high-resolution video.
The famously woke Trudeau tried to downplay the incidents, claiming in a public apology, that he was too young to understand the ramefications of his behavior, though he was nearly thirty when he painted his arms, hands, and face brown for an Aladdin costume. He also tried to claim that he selected his costumes during a time when blackface was not considered as inappropriate, even though the earliest example of Trudeau&#8217;s racially inappropriate behavior was from 2001.
To pay penance, Trudeau even made an appearance on a Canadian kids show, where a pair of young black girls confronted him on the subject of blackface. Trudeau was, oddly, unable to fully explain why he thought the costumes were appropriate.
&#8220;Um, it was something I shouldn&#8217;t have done because it hurt people,&#8221; he told the twins. &#8220;It&#8217;s not something you should do and that is something that I learned. It&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t know back then but I know it now. And I&#8217;m sorry I hurt people.&#8221;
Trudeau&#8217;s habit of employing blackface isn&#8217;t his only scandal, though. The self-proclaimed feminist is also accused of bullying out a female, indigenous minister in his government &#8212; an attorney general &#8212; after she refused to bow to his demand that the Attorney General&#8217;s office cease prosecuting an energy company with ties to Trudeau and some of his closest friends. That incident cost him a lot of support within his own party (even if they were quick to forgive the blackface incidents).
Canadians go to the polls to select their majority party this week, and Trudeau, who was once extremely popular in Canada, is now facing the possibility that he will not be re-elected. Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal Party is now running neck-and-neck with the country&#8217;s conservatives, and even if it pulls out a victory, will likely be forced to create a coalition government. That means that Trudeau won&#8217;t have quite the mandate &#8212; or quite the power &#8212; he now enjoys.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Holds A Campaign Rally In Vaughan, Ontario

Justin Trudeau Faces Protesters In Blackface On Last Day Of Campaign

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Former President Barack Obama took the unusual step of making an endosement in a foreign election Wednesday, giving his unqualified support to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau &#8212; but he still hasn&#8217;t endorsed his former Vice President, Joe Biden, for the 2020 Democratic nomination.
Obama made his official endorsement on Twitter.
&#8220;I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President. He&#8217;s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term,&#8221; Obama wrote.
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I was proud to work with Justin Trudeau as President. He&#39;s a hard-working, effective leader who takes on big issues like climate change. The world needs his progressive leadership now, and I hope our neighbors to the north support him for another term.
&mdash; Barack Obama (@BarackObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1184528998669389824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Canadian election is next Monday and so far, Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal Party, which holds a majority in Parliament now, is <a href="https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/">neck and neck with the Conservatives.</a> If the Liberal Party doesn&#8217;t pull out a victory, Trudeau will lose his status as Prime Minister.
Canadian state television is predicting that neither party will win a majority and that whomever serves as Prime Minister will preside over a coalition government &#8212; something Justin Trudeau doesn&#8217;t necessarily want to do. His closest allies in the election are the New Democrats Party and the Green Party and both have taken shots at Trudeau in recent weeks as the election draws to a close.
Now Barack Obama, who has long been a friend and ally of Trudeau, both in office and out of it, is breaking one of his cardinal rules &#8212; not intervening in foreign affairs &#8212; and throwing his support behind the embattled leftist leader.
It&#8217;s not clear how this benefits Trudeau, since Obama&#8217;s word is largely a celebrity endorsement at this point, and it&#8217;s unknown how much cache Obama still has among Canadians. It may help Trudeau escape accusations that he&#8217;s insensitive to racial issues; late last month, photos surfaced of Trudeau dressed in black- and brown-face for parties that took place in the early 2000s. Trudeau apologized for the costumes, suggesting that he was young and did not know better, but had a hard time escaping the fact that black- and brown-face weren&#8217;t acceptable at any point in the twenty-first century.
Obama&#8217;s endorsement shows that Trudeau can still court knowledgeable, woke leftist icons, thus assuring voters that he remains a paragon of progressivism despite his checkered past. And it may be working; just hours after Obama endorsed Trudeau, the Liberal Party was making hay out of his Twitter, using it to fundraise.
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And, just under two hours after <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> tweets that he hopes Canadians reelect <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> here’s the LPC fundraising email. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/elxn43?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#elxn43</a> <a href="https://t.co/8B3muujfMM">https://t.co/8B3muujfMM</a> <a href="https://t.co/xOWk6C0eGC">pic.twitter.com/xOWk6C0eGC</a>
&mdash; Rachel Aiello (@rachaiello) <a href="https://twitter.com/rachaiello/status/1184559949206171649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The person hardest hit by Obama&#8217;s endorsement won&#8217;t be Canadian Conservative Party leader, Andrew Scheer (he hasn&#8217;t even responded to Obama&#8217;s social media missive), but rather former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been an official contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination for at least six months and has yet to receive the stamp of approval from his former boss.
Back in April, when Biden first announced his official bid for the presidency, Obama issued some lukewarm praise for his former right-hand man, but stopped short of any formal endorsement (and the praise was issued through a spokesperson, not on Obama&#8217;s official Twitter feed).
“President Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made,” Obama spokeswoman Katie Hill told media in an email that day. “He relied on the vice president’s knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaigns and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond over the last 10 years and remain close today.”
Another source told the Daily Beast at the time that Obama was actually keeping his options open and encouraging a robust primary process before making a formal declaration of support.
“President Obama is excited by the extraordinary and diverse talent exhibited in the growing lineup of Democratic primary candidates,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-obama-praises-joe-biden-but-doesnt-endorse-2020-run">the Daily Beast reported the source as saying</a>. “He believes that a robust primary in 2007 and 2008 not only made him a better general election candidate, but a better president, too. And because of that, it’s unlikely that he will throw his support behind a specific candidate this early in the primary process—preferring instead to let the candidates make their cases directly to the voters.”
That&#8217;s rough for Joe, and even rougher now that he&#8217;s slipping in the polls and, reportedly, spending so much money he may not be able to sustain his campaign into next year.

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Barack Obama Endorses Justin Trudeau, Leaves Joe Biden Out In The Cold

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The Canadian media may not be interested in asking tough questions of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, but there are still some people willing to grill Trudeau over his recently surfaced blackface photos.
Last week, Trudeau truned up on the Canadian Facebook Watch program, &#8220;New Mom, Who Dis?&#8221; where the host occasionally invites groups of children for question and answer periods with famous guests. The guest appearance was promoted as a no-holds-barred discussion with Trudeau, who is running for a second term: “Nothing is off the table as [Host Jessica] Cruickshank and the PM sit down for a funny and honest discussion about family life, raising kids, and the impact his policies have on families and children.&#8221;
The interview, a promotional email trumpeted, &#8220;captures the Prime Minister like never seen before — sharing light-hearted family stories but also answering hard-hitting policy questions and taking real questions from real kids.”
They weren&#8217;t kidding.
Seated in a tiny chair and surrounded by kids, Trudeau clearly thought he&#8217;d be able to hit all his campaign talking points &#8212; and field softball questions from a group of Kindergartners assembled for the occasion. But a teaser clip of the show released Wednesday shows him backed into a corner over blackface by adorable twin girls.
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The two girls, who are black, confronted Trudeau over a series of photos and videos that surfaced late last month showing Trudeau in blackface. The photos, which Trudeau wrote off as from a &#8220;different time&#8221; and evidence of his less-woke youth, were from the early 2000s, when Trudeau clearly should have known better.
&#8220;I want you to ask Mr. Prime Minister anything you want, and he has to answer honestly because what kind of a monster lies to a child?&#8221; the host prompts.
Why did you paint your face brown?&#8221; a the tiny pair ask Trudeau.
&#8220;It was something I shouldn’t have done, cause it hurt people,&#8221; Trudeau asnwered, clearly flustered by the question. &#8220;It’s not something that you, you should do. And, that is something that I learned. I didn’t know it back then, but I know it now. And I’m sorry I hurt people.&#8221;
The answer wasn&#8217;t good enough for the twins, who pressed on: &#8220;But did you paint your nose and your hands brown?&#8221;
&#8220;Mmmhmm, yeah. And it was the wrong thing to do. And I had a good conversation with my kids around taking responsibility for mistakes, and making sure that we’re always sticking up for each other, and not teasing each other, and being respectful towards each other,&#8221; Trudeau stammered.
&#8220;And I’m sorry that I hurt you as well. I’m sorry that I hurt kids, who, you know, get face teasing and discrimination because, because of the color of their skin. That’s just not right in this country, or anywhere around the world, and we all have to work together to make sure that that doesn’t happen, ok?&#8221;
The two girls nodded at this last part and sat down.
Trudeau is facing an uphill battle to re-election. Before the blackface photos surfaced, Trudeau was having difficulty explaining away a controversy within his government, which saw him and several of his top aides accused of bullying a female, indigenous attorney general who dared to open an investigation into an oil company with ties to Trudeau and his friends.

WATCH: Canadian Schoolchildren DESTROY Justin Trudeau Over Blackface Photos

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is back in the headlines Sunday for a &#8220;blackface&#8221; costume he wore in high school to perform a version of Harry Belafonte&#8217;s famous &#8220;Banana Boat&#8221; song &#8212; and it might be the worst example of Trudeau&#8217;s bizarre costuming habit to date.
Trudeau has been under fire recently over his penchant for dressing up in &#8220;brownface,&#8221; including for a full &#8220;Aladdin&#8221; costume he donned in 2001 for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;-themed fundraiser at the school where he taught before entering politics. In addition to faux Arab dress, Trudeau is shown, in photos, with a dark brown-painted face and hands.
Trudeau has shrugged off the criticism, explaining that in 2001, black- and brown-face wasn&#8217;t considered racist (it definitely was), and that he simply enjoys committing to themes, especially when that commitment involves costumes. Trudeau says he&#8217;s &#8220;grown&#8221; since his &#8220;youth&#8221; (he was in his mid-20s at the time) and his opinion on matters of cultural sensitivity has changed.
But, it seems, Trudeau didn&#8217;t reserve his political incorrectness just for his Arabian Nights costume. Since that photo emerged, Canadian media has found a handful of other examples of Trudeau in black- and brown-face, usually for parties or events.
In high school, for example, Trudeau dressed as Belafonte for a school show, and, according to the new video, he really committed.
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A new high quality video of <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> dancing in blackface
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For his costume, Trudeau didn&#8217;t just paint his face. It seems he painted his whole body. He also stuffed socks in his pants to &#8220;enhance his crotch,&#8221; as one Twitter user put it, and ripped his jeans so that his blacked out knees were visible through a series of holes. He added an afro wig for good measure.
He&#8217;s also shown dancing with other students in the video, apparently as part of a class project. Trudeau is the only one among his friends to be in full blackface.
The Toronto Star found the video, which is a better version of another film located by Canada&#8217;s Globe &amp; Mail newspaper. <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/why-did-the-toronto-star-just-remove-a-high-quality-trudeau-blackface-video/">The Post Millennial</a>, a Canadian political site, grabbed the video from the Star and posted it to social media. The Star eventually removed the video from its site, but has yet to explain why.
The Post Millennial reports that the video emerged as part of the Toronto Star&#8217;s effort to &#8220;explain&#8221; Trudeau&#8217;s blackface moments, and was supposed to refute critics who charged that Trudeau was wearing a banana-themed shirt for his performance (turns out, he was actually wearing a shirt with a toucan on it). But by trying to help Trudeau out, they may have made his situation worse.
Certainly, the video shows Trudeau from his high school years, when he may actually have been too young and green to fully understand the implications of his cultrually appropriative and fully racist costume. But the point Trudeau&#8217;s critics are trying to drive home is that Trudeau never actually learned from his mistakes, and his &#8220;super woke&#8221; turn as Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister &#8212; he once lashed out at someone for using the term &#8220;mankind&#8221; because it was gender specific, for example &#8212; covers up a myriad of sins.
Trudeau has apologized for the incidents, but it may be too little too late. The Prime Minister is facing an uphill re-election battle and the black- and brown-face controversies are only the latest in a string of missteps. Trudeau also faces allegations that he tried to force friendly legislators to validate his feminist bona fides and he and others in his government may have forced out a female, indigenous attorney general because she planned on investigating a company to which Trudeau and his friends had ties.

UH OH: New Hi-Res Video Shows Justin Trudeau In Full Brownface Costume

Even though ultra-leftist Canadian Prime Minister was outed for having worn brownface on three occasions, CNN anchor Don Lemon praised him for apologizing while using the moment to bash President Trump.
&#8220;Wow, a leader apologizing. It seems odd, doesn&#8217;t it? Because we have one who doesn&#8217;t,&#8221; Lemon said on his program, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-don-lemon-justin-trudeau-brownface-photo">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;I do have to say this before we go: think about it however you want to think about it. When someone apologizes- wow!&#8221; Lemon later said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t often see that here, especially in a world leader who is saying &#8216;I should&#8217;ve known better and I&#8217;m sorry.&#8217; You can feel about it however you want, but that, to me, that does mean a lot.&#8221;
&#8220;What is happening in America today? We are at an inflection point in the history of our nation. Listen up, Mr. President. Tick-tock, tick-tock.&#8221;
The CNN panel also ran cover for Trudeau by claiming that context matters in his situation. Take a look:
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Trudeau&#8217;s situation, which echoed that of Democratic Virginia Governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s incident, became a media sensation on Wednesday when photos surfaced of the prime minister wearing brownface at an Arabian Nights gala in 2001. The photo occurred at West Point Grey Academy&#8217;s &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;-themed gala and featured the young Trudeau wearing a turban and robes with his face, neck, and hands darkened to look Middle-Eastern – the kind of antics Hollywood pulled back in the &#8220;Lawrence of Arabia&#8221; days with actor Alec Guinness.
Zita Astravas, the media relations lead of the Liberal Party of Canada, told TIME that the photo took place at an annual dinner and Trudeau intended to dress as a character from Aladdin.
&#8220;It was a photo taken while he was teaching in Vancouver, at the school’s annual dinner which had a costume theme of &#8216;Arabian Nights.&#8217; [Trudeau] attended with friends and colleagues dressed as a character from Aladdin,&#8221; said Astravas.
Canada&#8217;s Green Party leader Elizabeth May denounced the photo as racist and called upon Justin Trudeau to apologize. &#8220;I am deeply shocked by the racism shown in the photograph of Justin Trudeau,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;He must apologize for the harm done and commit to learning and appreciating the requirement to model social justice leadership at all levels of government. In this matter he has failed.&#8221;
After some hours had passed, Trudeau addressed the controversial photo to reporters on an airplane, during which he apologized and admitted the photo was racist, though he claimed to have not believed it was racist at the time.
&#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; said. &#8220;And I&#8217;m really sorry.&#8221;
The photo could not come at a worse moment for Truduea, who is now in a virtual tie for reelection against conservative Andrew Scheer. Knowing this could seriously cost him, Trudeau pledged to continue fighting against intolerance despite his past behavior.
&#8220;I stand here before Canadians as I will throughout this campaign and talk about the work we have to do to make a better country together,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I am going to continue to stay focused on that and continue to work to fight intolerance and discrimination, even though obviously I made a mistake in the past.&#8221;

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WATCH: Don Lemon Praises Justin Trudeau’s Brownface Apology While Trashing Trump

The revelation that Canadian prime minister and international leftist darling Justin Trudeau wore blackface on several occasions in the 1990s and early 2000s offers several opportunities for social growth. First, we may enjoy the absurdity of the costumes itself. As cancel culture attempts to abolish comedy, lily-white Justin Trudeau’s photos as an <a href="https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2019/09/18/a-yearbook-photo-of-pm-justin-trudeau-appearing-in-brown-face-published-by-time-magazine/">Arabian prince</a> and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4xyg4PU-U">King of Calypso</a> give us all a needed laugh. Second, we may savor the schadenfreude as the Left squirms to defend Trudeau’s repeated donning of blackface just one year after demanding Megyn Kelly’s head for merely discussing the propriety of the costume. And third, we might use Trudeau’s minstrel show to turn our society away from cancel culture and toward one marked by grace and civility.
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No one actually cares about blackface. If they did, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wse5lgIDxM">Jimmy Kimmel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvCFNWNvgjo">Jimmy Fallon</a>, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/59a857fd2b10063314283c524f8a851c">Ted Danson</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37781800">Joni Mitchell</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnzU1t04sxA">Billy Crystal</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFq4E9XTueY">Cyndi Lauper</a>, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/ny-ent-saturday-night-live-blackface-doing-for-years-20190211-story.html">Fred Armisen</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RiHfEtOy6A">Howard Stern</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9eUnzGc_Kw">Robert Downey Jr.</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESm6QALbs-E">Sarah Silverman</a>, among others, would no longer have careers — much less continue to enjoy widespread popularity. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/ralph-northam-yearbook-blackface.html">Ralph Northam</a> would no longer serve as governor of Virginia. All people of goodwill object to racial hatred. But no one cares that Billy Crystal darkened his skin to portray Sammy Davis Jr. No one thinks Justin Trudeau hates black people.
How could Trudeau have impersonated Harry Belafonte without darkening his skin, which is naturally white as the Canadian snow? How could the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeVkbNka9HM">Wayans brothers</a> have portrayed white chicks without wearing whiteface? Cynical ideologues defend a double standard. They say that the oppressed may imitate their oppressors, but the oppressors may not imitate the oppressed. So blacks may lighten their skin, but whites may not darken theirs. This rubric leaves much ambiguity. Where, for instance, do Americans of Italian descent fall in the hierarchy of victimhood? In 1891, a group of 11 Italian-Americans became the victims of the <a href="https://www.history.com/news/the-grisly-story-of-americas-largest-lynching">largest mass lynching</a> in American history. Who is permitted to dress like a cast member of &#8220;Jersey Shore?&#8221;
Even according to their own premises, the intersectional ideologues contradict themselves. If oppressors may not imitate the oppressed, how can anyone defend wearing drag? If men have oppressed women since time immemorial, as the ideologues insist, then transvestitism is simply blackface for the sexes. Yet the same leftist scolds who harangue their political opponents — and only their political opponents — for wearing blackface not only sanction but even <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/us/drag-queen-story-hour.html">encourage</a> men to dress as women.
The Left wields blackface as a political cudgel, feigning offense and making excuses according to political convenience. Conservatives need not embrace the same cynical and vindictive tactics. We would prefer to live in a society marked by grace and civility rather than one marked by petty opportunism and cancel culture. At the same time, we must not unilaterally disarm and let the Left ravage our cutlure without consequence. Fortunately, there is a third way.
If prominent leftists in the media and politics — the same hacks who demanded Megyn Kelly’s resignation and leap to accuse their opponents of bigotry at every turn — repent in print and on camera, conservatives ought to let Justin Trudeau’s photos slide. If the Left refuses to admit the error of its ways and accept conservatives’ offer of reason, mercy, and grace, then conservatives must demand Trudeau&#8217;s resignation. One way or another, the Left must learn a lesson. Justin Trudeau’s ridiculous costumes have offered us all an opportunity for growth. The Left will likely squander it. Too bad. Either way, conservatives will enjoy the show.

KNOWLES: No One Actually Cares About Blackface

Conservatism

Leftism

I am told that the revealed blackface photos of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are “<a href="https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/09/18/insulting-shocking-troubling-party-leaders-react-to-photo-of-trudeau-in-brownface/">shocking</a>.” I can think of several different words to describe them — “hilarious” certainly being one — but I would not personally call them shocking. Anyone who has been paying attention cannot be shocked that the wokest white boy this side of the Atlantic has this sort of thing in his past. And when you consider his widely recognized penchant for dressing in <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4037948/trudeau-family-criticized-for-indian-outfits/">ethnic attire</a> — as Trudeau himself said last night, he has “more enthusiasm for costumes than is sometimes appropriate” — it would, if anything, be shocking if the man had never once donned blackface.
But is it racist? So far, we know that Trudeau adjusted his complexion for an Aladdin costume (in a remake that was at least better than Will Smith’s, we have to admit), and to perform a Jamaican song at a talent show, and in at least one other as-yet-unclear context. Objectively, none of this is necessarily racist. Stupid? Yes. Insensitive? Perhaps. But it doesn’t compare to the explicitly dehumanizing blackface worn by minstrel show performers in the early 20th century. This kind of blackface is a joke. Maybe even a tribute. It is not automatically racist, and, all things being equal, it doesn’t matter what dumb costume a dumb guy wore 20 years ago.
And yet, all things are not equal. This blackface stuff is irrelevant and un-racist only by the objective standard of reasonable, sincere people. That is to say, it is relevant and certainly racist by the absurd standard of unreasonable and insincere people like Justin Trudeau. Leftists deserve to be held to their own standards for a change. What makes Trudeau’s blackface scandalous is not that it is bigoted, but that it directly contradicts his carefully curated brand as a racially enlightened progressive. This is a hypocrisy scandal, not a racism scandal. And on that level, he ought to be raked over the coals.
Consider the leftist argument against men like Mark Sanford and Larry Craig. They say that they — the leftists — don’t much care if a man has an affair in his personal life, or solicits gay sex in a restroom, but it’s an outrage in the case of conservative Republicans because of their “family values” brand. These Republicans are the very people — so the argument goes — who trumpet their Christian virtue and attack others for falling short in that regard. It is the height of hypocrisy for them, of all people, to be doing the toe-tap in a bathroom stall. I don’t necessarily disagree with this logic. And it’s this exact logic that should be applied to leftist public figures who have racially insensitive skeletons in their closets. In the name of consistency, and for the sake of punishing hypocrisy, they ought to be treated exactly as they would treat anyone else who has done the same thing.
And how, precisely, does the Left treat such people? Well, consider what happened to Megyn Kelly when she merely talked about blackface on her NBC show. All she did was argue that sometimes blackface isn’t racist — sometimes it’s meant as a tribute, not an insult — and for that, she was pilloried, attacked, and eventually fired. The Left demanded Kelly’s head on a platter for defending exactly the thing that Trudeau actually did. So how should it treat Trudeau? Should we not insist on consistency? If the Left wants to give Trudeau a pass, like they gave Virginia Governor Ralph Northam a pass, then they must be similarly generous with anyone and everyone who has done or said racially inappropriate things in the past. This seems like a perfectly fair demand. One standard — not two.

WALSH: The Left Tore Megyn Kelly Apart Just For Talking About Blackface. Justin Trudeau Deserves The Same Treatment.

Megan Crowley

Political Correctness

Race

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is &#8220;deeply sorry&#8221; for having donned blackface in several separate incidents in the early 2000s.
Trudeau expressed his regret in a hastily put together press conference aboard his campaign plane late Wednesday. He told reporters that dressing up as Aladdin for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221; themed fundraiser — a costume that included dark face makeup — was a &#8220;dumb thing to do,&#8221; <a href="https://www.apnews.com/74aaf4cf7ef148fdb75dfe977b99eb3c">the Associated Press reports</a>.
“I’m pissed off at myself, I’m disappointed in myself,” Trudeau said.
“I should have known better then but I didn’t, and I am deeply sorry for it,” Trudeau continued. “I’m going to ask Canadians to forgive me for what I did. I shouldn’t have done that. I take responsibility for it. It was a dumb thing to do.”
Trudeau claimed that he gets more &#8220;enthusiastic&#8221; about costumes than is &#8220;sometimes appropriate,&#8221; and admitted to both the Aladdin get up and a separate incident, where he donned blackface and sung &#8220;Day-O&#8221; in a video, pretending to be Harry Belafonte.
Thursday morning, a photo emerged of Trudeau in a third costume involving blackface. At publication, Trudeau had yet to address the third incident.
Time Magazine published the photo of Trudeau, decked out in Arabic-looking attire and smiling from behind very dark brown makeup late Wednesday night. The picture was apparently taken at an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;-themed fundraiser for a high school where Trudeau taught, West Point Grey Academy.
Trudeau claims that the costume was not considered racist at the time, and that &#8220;society knows better now,&#8221; in the words of the Associated Press. But the incident happened in 2001 when Trudeau was well into adulthood and blackface was clearly considered unacceptable — a fact many on social media were quick to point out.
Trudeau, who is Canada&#8217;s current Prime Minister, is facing an uphill battle for re-election, and the blackface photos were released just as the country gears up to vote. In a handful of press conferences held across Canada, politicians to Trudeaus right and left attacked Canada&#8217;s embattled leader.
“It is insulting. Any time we hear examples of brownface or blackface it’s making a mockery of someone for what they live, for what their lived experiences are. I think he has to answer for it,” Leftist New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh, who is Canada&#8217;s first minority party leader, told AP. Conservatives pointed out Trudeau&#8217;s blatant hypocrisy; the Prime Minister is known for openly chiding his countrymen — especially conservatives — who do not use &#8220;inclusive&#8221; language or embrace his &#8220;progressive&#8221; ideals.
Trudeau has also openly criticized American President Donald Trump for, in his mind, espousing racist ideas, particularly in regards to Trump&#8217;s immigration policies (even though Canada also has strict rules about immigration and has cracked down heavily on illegal border-jumpers in recent years).
Trudeau is already facing allegations of hypocrisy in this election cycle, as well as claims of scandal. Earlier this year, female members of Trudeau&#8217;s government, including his former attorney general, claimed they were booted from high-level positions in his administration after they blew the whistle on a sweetheart deal. According to justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, who brought Trudeau&#8217;s alleged misdeeds before Parliament, the Prime Minister pressured her office to drop prosecution of an engineering company to which Trudeau and his friends have ties.
Wilson-Raybould claimed that Trudeau “directed his staff to find a solution that would safeguard SNC-Lavalin’s business interest in Canada,&#8221; <a href="https://www.apnews.com/46acbf6874354fa4854e7ab5a0ce02db">according to a report</a> filed with the Canadian Ethics Commission, which also found Trudeau in violation of ethics rules.

Justin Trudeau Says He&#8217;s &#8216;Deeply Sorry&#8217; For Blackface Incident, Claims Costume Wasn&#8217;t Racist At The Time

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s blackface scandal went from bad to worse Thursday morning when what appears to be a third instance of him wearing dark make-up to look like a person of color emerged — after the liberal leader suggested he had worn blackface only twice.
&#8220;Global News has obtained video showing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau in blackface, the third instance of racist dress to come to light in 12 hours,&#8221; the outlet reported early Thursday morning.
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&#8220;The video was shot in the early 1990s, however, it’s not clear where it takes place,&#8221; Global News reports. &#8220;The video, obtained exclusively by Global News, shows Trudeau covered in what appears to be dark makeup and raising his hands in the air while laughing, sticking his tongue out and making faces. He’s wearing a white T-shirt, and his jeans are ripped at the knees. It appears as though his arms and legs are covered in makeup as well. It does not appear the video was shot at the same time and place of the other photos of Trudeau in racist make-up that have emerged in the past 24 hours.&#8221;
Global News notes that it had actually obtained the video earlier this week, &#8220;but had been attempting to verify it before publishing.&#8221; Early Thursday, a member of the Liberal campaign confirmed that it was indeed Trudeau.
&#8220;The source did not shoot the video but Global News subsequently reached the person believed to have shot the video,&#8221; the outlet notes. &#8220;That person would not confirm or deny that it was Trudeau in the video or the time and place of the video.&#8221;
The first image showing Trudeau in blackface was first reported by Time magazine. Trudeau donned dark makeup for a 2001 &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221;-themed gala held at West Point Grey Academy, a private school where he taught.
A second blackface instance took place during a high school talent show, where Trudeau dressed up to perform the song &#8220;Day-O.&#8221;
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The emergence of what appears to be a third instance of Trudeau in &#8220;brownface&#8221; followed him admitting to doing so on two occasions, as noted by <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1174655210570096640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1174655210570096640&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2019%2F09%2F19%2Fhes-still-lying-3rd-instance-of-justin-trudeau-in-blackface-surfaces-a%2F">Rebel News</a> and <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/09/19/hes-still-lying-3rd-instance-of-justin-trudeau-in-blackface-surfaces-a/">Twitchy</a>.
Trudeau addressed the growing controversy at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51959/blackface-photo-justin-trudeau-surfaces-trudeau-ryan-saavedra">press conference</a> on Wednesday. &#8220;I stand here before Canadians as I will throughout this campaign and talk about the work we have to do to make a better country together,&#8221; said the embattled prime minister. &#8220;And I am going to continue to stay focused on that and continue to work to fight intolerance and discrimination, even though obviously I made a mistake in the past.&#8221;
&#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t have done it. I should have known better, but I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Trudeau added. &#8220;And I&#8217;m really sorry.&#8221;
But Trudeau also admitted during the press conference that he darkened his skin on another occasion. &#8220;When I was in high school I dressed up at a talent show and sang &#8216;Day-O&#8217; with makeup on,&#8221; he said.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51959/blackface-photo-justin-trudeau-surfaces-trudeau-ryan-saavedra">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted, Green Party leader Elizabeth May unloaded on Trudeau over the issue. &#8220;I am deeply shocked by the racism shown in the photograph of Justin Trudeau,&#8221; she tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;He must apologize for the harm done and commit to learning and appreciating the requirement to model social justice leadership at all levels of government. In this matter he has failed.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49559/democrats-who-called-northam-resign-now-accepting-ryan-saavedra">Democrats Who Called On Northam To Resign Now Accepting Donations From Him</a>

THIRD Instance Of Justin Trudeau In Blackface Emerges After He Said He Did It Twice

Ralph Northam

Another new poll has found Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 47, the head of the Liberal Party, in serious trouble: The Nanos Research poll, released Tuesday, found that if elections were held now, the Liberal Party would lose control of the government and Trudeau would be out, the first prime minister to do so holding a single majority mandate in almost 100 years.
The Nanos Research poll showed Conservatives garnering 34.9% of respondents; Liberals 32.8%, and the New Democratic Party 16.6%. In March, an Ipsos poll found Conservatives with 40% and Liberals with 30%. Since the start of 2019, the Liberals have plunged six percentage points, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-politics/canadas-golden-boy-trudeau-sinks-in-polls-as-scandal-takes-toll-idUSKCN1RL269">according to Reuters</a>.
Pollster Nik Nanos stated, &#8220;The Liberals have taken a hit, but they&#8217;re still competitive. The most significant effect has been the negative impact on the prime minister&#8217;s personal brand.&#8221;
Trudeau has had to answer allegations charging that members of his team pressured Canada&#8217;s former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, to drop a criminal case against the engineering and construction company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc., which was accused of bribing Libyan officials. In mid-February, Wilson-Raybould resigned from the cabinet, <a href="https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/read-jody-wilson-rayboulds-resignation-letter/">writing</a>, &#8220;I am aware that many Canadians wish for me to speak on matters that have been in the media over the last week. I am in the process of obtaining advice on the topics that I am legally permitted to discuss in this matter and as such, have retained the Honourable Thomas Albert Cromwell, CC as counsel.&#8221;
Last week Wilson-Raybould and Treasury Board President Jane Philpott, who had supported Wilson-Raybould, were <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trudeau-government-expels-former-allies-who-challenged-him-in-political-scandal/2019/04/02/fb57cd8a-5591-11e9-a047-748657a0a9d1_story.html?utm_term=.8925a2665a8b">expelled</a> from the Liberal Party. Trudeau <a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/politics/vancouver-mp-jody-wilson-raybould-says-shes-been-kicked-out-of-the-liberal-caucus">told reporters</a>, &#8220;We&#8217;ve taken every effort to address their concerns, and ultimately, if they can&#8217;t honestly say that they have confidence in this team &#8230; then they cannot be part of this team &#8230; The trust that previously existed between these two individuals and our team has been broken. It&#8217;s become clear that Ms. Wilson-Raybould and Dr. Philpott can no longer be part of our Liberal team.&#8221;
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer blasted the two women&#8217;s ouster, asserting, &#8220;Canadians will view the removal of Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould from the Liberal caucus for exactly what it is: A betrayal of justice. Elected officials are supposed to protect individuals who blow the whistle on government misconduct and corruption, not punish them. However, in expelling Ms. Philpott and Ms. Wilson-Raybould from their caucus, they have done exactly that.&#8221;
Trudeau has targeted Scheer: on Monday, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/04/08/justin-trudeau-just-cant-quit-snc-lavalin-scandal/?utm_term=.c1d74f5c9710">The Washington Post</a> reported, &#8220;On Sunday, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer held a news conference to announce that he had received a letter from Trudeau&#8217;s lawyer threatening to sue him for comments he made about the controversy. In the letter, dated March 31, attorney Julian Porter said criticisms in a Scheer news release two days earlier had gone &#8216;beyond the pale of fair debate and is libellous&#8217; and warned of possible action under Ontario&#8217;s Libel and Slander Act, according to Canadian media.&#8221;
Ipsos pollster Darrell Bricker commented, &#8220;Justin Trudeau was standing on thin ice at the end of last year, and then somebody handed him an anvil and crash, the ice broke. There&#8217;s a credibility problem driven by a bunch of things, one of which is promises made and not kept.&#8221;

Canada&#8217;s Trudeau Is Plunging In Polls, Conservatives Ahead

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reportedly considering a &#8220;statement of contrition&#8221; over allegations that he pressured a female, indigenous attorney general to abandon the investigation and prosecution of a Quebec company the Canadian government believed was engaging in fraud and corruption.
<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-raybould-philpott-snc-lavalin-1.5043763">The CBC reports</a> that Trudeau &#8220;is holding high-level discussions today to plot next steps in the ongoing SNC-Lavalin controversy &#8212; steps which may include Trudeau making some display of contrition over how officials in his office conducted themselves.&#8221;
Trudeau isn&#8217;t yet considering resignation, though it appears the scandal has weakened him considerably, and he still believes &#8212; despite considering an official apology &#8212; that the controversy stems from a &#8220;difference of opinion&#8221; rather than a potentially unlawful and unethical use of his office, according to the CBC.
That&#8217;s news to some of his cabinet ministers. His former attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, who made the complaint about the SNC-Lavalin prosecution, was the first to resign several weeks ago. She eventually testified in front of Parliament &#8212; after Trudeau released her from the bounds of attorney-client privilege &#8212; that she felt intense pressure from the government to abandon her department&#8217;s investigations of SNC-Lavalin, a government action that violates both ethics rules and Canadian law.
<a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-03-05/canadas-bruised-trudeau-expected-to-fight-political-firestorm">U.S. News and World Report</a> notes that a second Cabinet Minister resigned earlier this week, leaving Trudeau looking even weaker.
&#8220;A second member of Trudeau&#8217;s Cabinet resigned on Monday, saying she had lost confidence in how the government had dealt with allegations that officials inappropriately pressured former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould last year to try to help construction company SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid a trial on charges of bribing Libyan officials,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;Treasury Board President Jane Philpott was one of the most respected members of government and political observers described her departure as a major blow.&#8221;
The Cabinet&#8217;s 33 other Ministers found it necessary Tuesday to express their public support for Trudeau, but &#8220;nervous Liberal legislators say Trudeau needs to make changes to his inner circle and complain about a lack of communication from top aides.&#8221;
Trudeau, U.S. News says, is digging in for the long haul. Conservatives seem poised to take over the government if he doesn&#8217;t, and there are few procedures for forcing a Prime Minister to step down. One estimate said it could take up to two years to force Trudeau out if he doesn&#8217;t resign of his own volition.
There is still information pouring out on Trudeau&#8217;s scandal, which seems to be motivating his political opponents to wait. Gerald Butts, one of Trudeau&#8217;s closest friends, was Trudeau&#8217;s chief aide until last month, when he resigned over the SNC-Lavalin allegations. He&#8217;s due to testify in front of the House of Commons judiciary committee next week about his role in allegedly pressuring the attorney general to close her office&#8217;s investigation. Based on what Butts says in his testimony, things may improve for Trudeau &#8212; or they may not.

Justin Trudeau Considering Apology To Save Job After Another Member Quits His Cabinet

Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau &#8212; who has been implicated in a corruption scandal as well as a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32757/justin-trudeaus-accuser-breaks-her-silence-after-james-barrett">#MeToo accusation</a> from two decades ago &#8212; appeared at a climate change ralley on Monday, and the scene quickly got ugly.
Trudeau is facing increasing political pressure over accusations by Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada&#8217;s former female, indigenous attorney general, that he and other members of his administration attempted to pressure her to &#8220;abandon prosecution&#8221; of a &#8220;corrupt company,&#8221; SNC-Lavalin, that is allegedly tied to Trudeau&#8217;s political cronies. When she refused to cave, Wilson-Raybould says, Trudeau fired her. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/44173/trudeau-trouble-canadian-prime-minister-facing-emily-zanotti">reports</a>:
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For some time, the story remained uncorroborated &#8212; a mere rumor that circulated around Canada&#8217;s government officials. But last week, Wilson-Raybould testified in front of Parliament, telling her story in &#8220;meticulous detail,&#8221; according to <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1100940610461204481">Canadian reporter Ezra Levant</a>, parsing out &#8220;how Trudeau and his staff tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a corrupt company that he liked.&#8221;
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In a series of videos published by <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/5021524/justin-trudeau-climate-rally-interrupted/">Global News</a>, Trudeau&#8217;s attempt to explain the controversy at a climate change-focused rally on Monday was derailed when protesters erupted.
&#8220;Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared at a rally on Monday amid the still-unfolding SNC-Lavalin affair, and the tone grew tense at times,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;The rally, focused on climate change and taking place at Toronto&#8217;s Danforth Music Hall, saw protesters interrupt the prime minister repeatedly before they were quickly ushered out of the venue.&#8221;
The Global News says the first of multiple interruptions occurred while the prime minister was attempting to address the resignation of his now former Treasury Board president, Jane Philpott, over the corruption scandal. As Trudeau thanked Philpott for her service, a protester held up a banner reading: &#8220;#PIGTRIAL2.&#8221;
She was quickly ushered away by security, but she didn&#8217;t go without causing a commotion.
And the first Trudeau protester wasn&#8217;t alone; another female protester soon interrupted the prime minister, accusing him of trying to silence &#8220;a Native woman&#8217;s voice,&#8221; and once again things got chaotic. As security arrived, the protester screamed, &#8220;Don&#8217;t touch me, I have my baby!&#8221; and &#8220;Are you going to assault me?!&#8221;
The crowd did its best to show Trudeau support, and the embattled leader tried to play it all down, citing democracy&#8217;s inclusion of all kinds of voices, but he failed to get control of the room.
When Trudeau started discussing the importance of addressing the &#8220;climate crisis,&#8221; things went from bad to worse, with &#8220;a melee&#8221; breaking out among the crowd, the Global News reports, which included one man &#8220;appear[ing] to shove a woman in a large group as the prime minister said: &#8216;Oh boy, oh boy.'&#8221; The man who allegedly shoved the woman reportedly remained and then began to argue with another man.
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After weeks of mounting pressure and some high-profile resignations from his administration, Trudeau allowed Wilson-Raybould to testify in front of Parliament and she promptly delivered a bombshell testimony.
&#8220;For a period of approximately four months between September and December 2018, I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the Attorney General of Canada in an inappropriate effort to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with SNC-Lavalin,&#8221; she testified.
&#8220;These events involved 11 people (excluding myself and my political staff) &#8211; from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, the Privy Council Office, and the Office of the Minister of Finance,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This included in-person conversations, telephone calls, emails, and text messages. There were approximately 10 phone calls and 10 meetings specifically about SNC-Lavalin that I and/or my staff was a part of.&#8221;
Her refusal to help the company avoid a trial, she told Parliament, is why she was demoted. Trudeau denies the allegations, accusing Wilson-Raybould of mischaracterizing the events.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44173/trudeau-trouble-canadian-prime-minister-facing-emily-zanotti">Trudeau In TROUBLE: Canadian Prime Minister Is Facing A Political Crisis, Possible Resignation</a>

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Canada&#8217;s heart-throb Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has had a rough week, and things may only be getting worse.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47362657">According to the BBC</a>, Trudeau is facing claims that he exerted intense political pressure on Canada&#8217;s female, indigenous attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould, to &#8220;abandon prosecution&#8221; of Quebec-based engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, a &#8220;corrupt company&#8221; with alleged ties to Trudeau and some of his closet political pals. When Wilson-Raybould refused to call off an investigation (and subsequent prosecution) into SNC-Lavalin over fraud and corruption charges, the story goes, Trudeau fired her.
For some time, the story remained uncorroborated &#8212; a mere rumor that circulated around Canada&#8217;s government officials. But last week, Wilson-Raybould testified in front of Parliament, telling her story in &#8220;meticulous detail,&#8221; according to <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1100940610461204481">Canadian reporter Ezra Levant</a>, parsing out &#8220;how Trudeau and his staff tried to get her to drop criminal charges against a corrupt company that he liked.&#8221;
&#8220;[Wilson-Raybould] refused to bend the law for Trudeau&#8217;s cronies. But they didn&#8217;t stop. Trudeau; his chief of staff; his principal secretary; even the finance minister. They met her ten times, phoned her ten more. trying to get the charges dropped. She wouldn&#8217;t. So Trudeau fired her as A-G,&#8221; Levant tweeted in a short &#8220;primer&#8221; for American audiences &#8212; an account <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/01/justin-trudeaus-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week-just-got-worse/?utm_term=.69234c9ad500">substantiated by The Washington Post</a>. Trudeau eventually appointed Wilson-Raybould to a lesser position, handling veteran&#8217;s affairs.
Because Wilson-Raybould was silenced by attorney-client privilege, only Trudeau was able to speak fully on the matter, according to Levant&#8217;s account, but after weeks of pressure, and several high-profile departures from Trudeau&#8217;s inner circle, Wilson-Raybould was invited to testify in front of Parliament, and Trudeau waived privilege.
The result <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/read-jody-wilson-rayboulds-full-remarks-to-the-house-of-commons-justice-committee">was a bombshell testimony</a> that appears to implicate Trudeau in a major political scandal.
&#8220;For a period of approximately four months between September and December 2018, I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion in my role as the Attorney General of Canada in an inappropriate effort to secure a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with SNC-Lavalin,&#8221; Wilson-Raybould testified.
&#8220;These events involved 11 people (excluding myself and my political staff) &#8211; from the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, the Privy Council Office, and the Office of the Minister of Finance. This included in-person conversations, telephone calls, emails, and text messages. There were approximately 10 phone calls and 10 meetings specifically about SNC-Lavalin that I and/or my staff was a part of,&#8221; she added.
It&#8217;s against the law in Canada to exert pressure on an attorney general, leaving Trudeau potentially exposed to criminal charges. Wilson-Raybould testified in front of Parliament that she did not know whether any laws had been broken, but that it should be clear &#8220;she was not prepared to help the company avoid a trial and that she believes it was why she was demoted in a Cabinet shuffle in January.&#8221;
Trudeau denies the allegations, and told the BBC that he &#8220;disagreed&#8221; with the &#8216;&#8221;characterization&#8217; of events and maintained his staff followed the rules.&#8221;
&#8220;The prime minister said he had full confidence in an inquiry by a parliamentary justice committee into the affair and in an investigation by the federal ethics commissioner, and would &#8216;participate fully&#8217; in that process,&#8221; he added.
To make matters worse, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/01/justin-trudeaus-horrible-no-good-very-bad-week-just-got-worse/?utm_term=.69234c9ad500">The Washington Post reports</a>, the issue has captured the attention of China, which is now accusing the Trudeau administration of exerting political pressure over lesser ministers who tried to cut a deal with China to release prisoners held in Canada on U.S. charges. The two prisoners are awaiting extradition to the U.S. rather than facing justice in Canada, much to China&#8217;s dismay.

Trudeau In TROUBLE: Canadian Prime Minister Is Facing A Political Crisis, Possible Resignation

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is blaming President Donald Trump and the United States&#8217; stricter policies on immigration for Canada&#8217;s burgeoning &#8220;immigration crisis,&#8221; even though Trudeau himself told migrants he&#8217;d welcome them with &#8220;open arms.&#8221;
In an interview with <a href="https://globalnews.ca/video/rd/1403405891522/?jwsource=cl">GlobalNews.ca</a>, Trudeau absolved himself of all responsibility over the influx of illegal immigrants who&#8217;ve made their way into Canada through the United States, claiming instead that the United States has failed to welcome migrants with open arms, thus sending them packing for Canada.
Back in 2017, Trudeau famously tweeted, in response to President Trump&#8217;s call to heavily restrict immigration to the United States, that Canada would continue to be a destination for the world&#8217;s downtrodden, even if the U.S. wasn&#8217;t interested.
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To those fleeing persecution, terror &amp; war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WelcomeToCanada?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WelcomeToCanada</a>
&#8212; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/825438460265762816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2017</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Your tweet saying &#8216;welcome to Canada&#8217; is often cited as the reason why these people are pouring across the border. Do you ever regret that tweet?&#8221; the interviewer asked Trudeau.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Trudeau answered, adding, &#8220;If people are in the midst of migration around the world right now, it&#8217;s not because of a tweet restating &#8212; almost word for word &#8212; Canadian policy on refugees, because that&#8217;s exactly what it was.&#8221;
&#8220;And certainly, if people are fleeing the United States right now and are choosing to leave the United States right now, it&#8217;s not something I said,&#8221; Trudeau continued. &#8220;It is perhaps domestic realities within the political context in the United States that is driving people to move or to make those certain decisions.&#8221;
In other words, it&#8217;s all Donald Trump&#8217;s fault.
But while it&#8217;s no secret that U.S. immigration policy has become more restrictive, certainly Trudeau&#8217;s policy of welcoming immigrants with open arms isn&#8217;t helping. <a href="https://www.cicnews.com/2018/12/international-migration-to-canada-reached-record-level-in-third-quarter-of-2018-1211666.html#gs.BMVP8UA">According to CIC news</a>, which tracks immigration to Canada, &#8220;international migration reached a record level in the third quarter of 2018,&#8221; bypassing records set each previous quarter. Population growth has exploded in Canada, largely because of immigration.
The situation has gotten so bad that Canada is now <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/06/08/canada-warns-immigrants-u-s-heading-north-border/683297002/">actively encouraging migrants</a> not to cross into their country outside of legal border checkpoints, and cautioning potential immigrants to Canada that the road to Canadian citizenship isn&#8217;t easy. Asylum seekers are allowed to remain in-country while their claims are being processed, but Canada only accepts a fraction of asylum claims.
To emigrate to Canada legally, potential Canadians must prove they will provide a value to their new home country &#8212; a process that might take more than a decade.
Worse still, the influx of immigration to Canada has cost the country dearly. The Canadian government spends approximately $14,000 per illegal immigrant, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pbo-budget-officer-asylum-seekers-costs-1.4924364">Canadian state media reports</a>.
&#8220;Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux said the total cost for the asylum claims process was about $340 million in 2017-2018 and is expected to rise to $396 million in 2019-2020,&#8221; the CBC continued.
Canadians are fed up. As &#8220;yellow vest&#8221; protests rage in Europe, they&#8217;ve begun popping up in Canada, &#8220;criticizing the tax and immigration policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government,&#8221; <a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/yellow-vest-protests-spread-to-canada-criticizing-illegal-immigration-taxes-1.4220086">CTV News reported last weekend</a>. &#8220;In many cities, last week&#8217;s signing of the UN&#8217;s Global Compact for Migration in Morocco is what drove their anger. Canada was among the 164 nations that signed on. The United States was not.&#8221;
But Trudeau insists he isn&#8217;t to blame.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Blames Canada&#8217;s Illegal Immigration Woes On The United States

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Liberal hero and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, undeterred by the massive unrest in France à la the &#8220;Yellow Vest&#8221; movement, is set to implement a massive federal tax on carbon emissions by April.
As France literally burns from weeks-long protesting over French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s now-abandoned fuel tax, Trudeau is sticking to his Climate Change initiative, which conservative critics say is already crippling Canadian businesses and squeezing the middle class.
Under Trudeau&#8217;s plan, <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/9/justin-trudeaus-carbon-tax-divides-canada-voters/">according</a> to The Washington Times, a national price on carbon emissions of $7.5 a ton will be increased to $37.50 by 2022. By April, a carbon tax will be implemented across the nation, despite fiery opposition from at least four provinces.
According to Canada&#8217;s environment minister Katherine McKenna, excessively taxing Canadians for carbon emissions &#8220;is just a basic principle.&#8221;
&#8220;If you make it free to pollute, there will be more pollution. If you put a price on pollution, it will create the incentive for folks to save money by reducing pollution, choosing cleaner solutions and the innovations we need,&#8221; said McKenna.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s unfortunately a trend that we see with some conservative governments that they want to fight progress. They want to fight climate action,&#8221; she complained.
As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/world/canada/justin-trudeau-carbon-tax.html">reported</a> by The New York Times, Trudeau&#8217;s government, looking to quell preemptive outrage, says they&#8217;ll &#8220;rebate the money it collects, much of it from industry rather than individuals, to taxpayers.&#8221;
Opponents, however, say the &#8220;jobs-killing carbon tax&#8221; must be scrapped entirely.
&#8220;When the federal government feels they know best and they impose what I feel are flawed policies on all of the people of the nation is where we run into challenges,&#8221; said Scott Moe, the premier of Saskatchewan. &#8220;This is not in any way, shape or form an effective environmental policy &#8212; it is only a policy that costs families money unnecessarily.&#8221;
Moe implemented Climate Change initiatives in his province to effectively lower carbon emissions but skirted any carbon tax. This was not good enough for Trudeau&#8217;s government, hence the looming federal tax.
Candice Bergen, head of the Conservative opposition in the House of Commons, similarly slammed the carbon tax. &#8220;It penalizes farmers, it penalizes industry, it penalizes Canadians,&#8221; she said, noting that it will not be as environmentally impactful as promised by Canadian liberals.
Support for the measure hit a low 45% in July but rebounded back to 54% approval in October, notes The Washington Times.
&#8220;Canadians are divided on the carbon tax by age and demographics, by politics and ideology. It&#8217;s an issue opponents are using to attack voters&#8217; trust in the Trudeau government and whether carbon pricing is the right way to go,&#8221; pollster Shachi Kurl said.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39015/french-yellow-vests-are-rioting-because-taxes-have-ben-shapiro">argued</a> last week by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, France&#8217;s recent unrest is more evidence that economic growth and environmental overreach are routinely incompatible. &#8220;Clearly, France&#8217;s riots show there are costs to such overreach. Economic policies have consequences,&#8221; he said.

Undeterred By Violent Protests In France, Trudeau Set To Implement Massive Carbon Tax

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The Guardian claims Americans are moving to Canada in record numbers, but it seems they&#8217;re counting a lot of non-Americans in that number &#8212; non-Americans that Canada doesn&#8217;t really want.
&#8220;In 2017, some 2,550 U.S. citizens applied for asylum in Canada &#8211; an increase of more than sixfold from 2016 and the largest such number since at least 1994, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada,&#8221; the left-leaning British paper reported Wednesday,
But although there are &#8220;U.S. Citizens&#8221; migrating to Canada, they aren&#8217;t who you think they are. Most of the American political &#8220;refugees&#8221; aren&#8217;t liberal celebrities seeking relief from Donald Trump or even disgruntled Americans sick of the president&#8217;s politics.
Instead, they&#8217;re the minor, American-born children of non-citizens &#8212; often illegal immigrants &#8212; whose parents might find themselves on the wrong side of the Trump administration&#8217;s stricter immigration policies. The parents use the children as a way of obtaining asylum north of the border, even though neither they nor their kids are likely entitled to it.
&#8220;Most of the Americans applying for refugee status are the children of non-residents,&#8221; an immigration lawyer told the Guardian. &#8220;They are US citizens because they were born there, but they come across the border with their parents because they don&#8217;t want to be separated.&#8221;
In some cases, those children are as young as three months. The couple the Guardian spoke to moved with a newborn after the Trump administration<a href="https://www.vox.com/2017/11/20/16682924/haiti-tps-temporary-protected-status"> announced an end to &#8220;temporary protected status</a>&#8221; for Haitian immigrants, a short-term immigration visa previous administrations issued for Haitians who needed to care for children or work while their home country was recovering from an earthquake. The Trump administration, though, claimed immigrants on these TPS visas were overstaying their welcome and using the TPS as an excuse to remain in the U.S. indefinitely.
But there&#8217;s also another problem: if the United States&#8217; immigration policy is strict, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/07/canada-immigration-success/564944/">it&#8217;s nothing compared to Canada&#8217;s</a>, where naturalization can take more than a decade &#8212; only if you meet Canada&#8217;s strict qualifications for immigration, namely that you&#8217;ll give more to Canada than you take from it.
The couple in the Guardian&#8217;s story said they fled to Canada because Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a tweet, promised a safe haven for refugees both from and turned down by the United States. But like many &#8220;refugees,&#8221; they&#8217;re finding that the Prime Minister&#8217;s welcoming message was overly optimistic. Canada doesn&#8217;t tolerate illegal immigration, and anyone who claims asylum in Canada must undergo a grueling set of hearings.
Most asylum-seekers are turned down. Many are deported. And, after handling a record influx of asylum seekers following Trudeau&#8217;s tweet, the Canadian government is looking for ways to cut down on the number of asylum requests they grant.
Canada may have a reputation for being the &#8220;safe haven&#8221; from American Republicans, but it doesn&#8217;t live up to it.

The Media Claims A &#8216;Record Number&#8217; Of Americans Are Fleeing To Canada, But Is That Really True?

On Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-st-louis-november-seven-1.4813667?cmp=rss">announced</a> that on November 7, Canada would officially apologize for turning away the MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 907 German Jews fleeing the Nazi regime, in 1939. Trudeau&#8217;s announcement seemed to be a sop thrown to supporters of more open immigration to Canada as well as a defense of the Jewish people, but another perspective indicates there is good reason for Jews to view the announcement with suspicion.
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Today on a high holiday call with <a href="https://twitter.com/CanadianRabbis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CanadianRabbis</a>, I announced the date for Canada&#8217;s formal apology for the 1939 St. Louis incident &#8211; November 7th in the House of Commons.
&#8212; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1037800364538515456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau followed with this tweet that could easily make the entire announcement look like a cynical ploy, as Hillel Neuer of U.N. Watch noted:
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This was an absolute moral failure on the part of the government, and though of course an apology can&#8217;t bring the victims back, we&#8217;re committed to doing what we can to right this wrong.
&#8212; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1037800367671717889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JustinTrudeau</a> As Krauthammer said, &#8220;Mourning dead Jews is easy. And, forgive me, cheap. Want to truly honor the dead? Show solidarity with the living&#8212;Israel and its 6 million Jews.&#8221; Apologize for abstaining on UN&#8217;s June 13 &#8220;deploring&#8221; of Israeli self-defence from Hamas terror. <a href="https://t.co/7CwcDn2re0">https://t.co/7CwcDn2re0</a>
&#8212; Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1037954381516165120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In May, the terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza organized protests in which they had a multitude of their members demonstrating at the border in order to initiate conflict with Israel, likely so that Hamas members could ultimately infiltrate Israel and implement terrorist attacks. Hamas <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-official-50-of-the-people-killed-in-gaza-riots-were-members/">later admitted</a> that 50 of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during the Gaza border riots were members of the Islamist terrorist group. After the cynically-manipulated event caused international outrage against Israel, Yoram Schweitzer, an expert on international terrorism, wrote in the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Hamas-planned-and-predetermined-the-tragedy-in-Gaza-557708">Jerusalem Post:</a>
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The preaching and shock in the international media are accompanied by horrifying images framed under misleading headlines. Such images create a partial reality, ignoring the reality outside the focused frame as well as the wider context. They do not express the danger inherent in mass demonstrations by civilians, including men, women and young boys and girls, and lead to misunderstandings about the actual danger to human life inherent in &#8220;cold&#8221; weapons. Behind them are well-armed squads with a clear intention to exploit the chaos to shoot, plant bombs or kidnap Israeli soldiers and civilians.
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But Trudeau issued a <a href="https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2018/05/16/statement-prime-minister-violence-gaza-strip">statement</a> condemning Israel:
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Canada deplores and is gravely concerned by the violence in the Gaza Strip that has led to a tragic loss of life and injured countless people. We are appalled that Dr. Tarek Loubani, a Canadian citizen, is among the wounded &#8211; along with so many unarmed people, including civilians, members of the media, first responders, and children &#8230; Reported use of excessive force and live ammunition is inexcusable.
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Trudeau was <a href="http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/justin-trudeau-under-fire-for-gaza-comments-cija-fswc">slammed</a> by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), which launched a <a href="http://cija.ca/gaza/">petition</a> demanding the Canadian government reiterate its previous condemnation of Hamas as a terrorist organization, which Trudeau refused to do.
CIJA CEO Shimon Koffler Fogel stated, &#8220;We are deeply disappointed the government&#8217;s statement ignores Hamas&#8217; direct responsibility for recent violence on the Israel-Gaza border. This contradicts the government&#8217;s long-stated position that, as a close ally and fellow liberal democracy, Israel can count on Canada&#8217;s support when its security is threatened.&#8221;
Avi Benlolo, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center&#8217;s president and CEO, echoed, &#8220;While we despair about loss of life, Canada should steadfastly condemn Hamas for inciting violence and for attempting to enter a sovereign nation to carry out terrorism. It&#8217;s disappointing that our prime minister did not condemn Hamas in his statement.&#8221;

Trudeau To Apologize For Dead Jews In 1939. Defending Jews In Israel, Not So Much.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may find himself in a more difficult position come re-election time, according to <a href="https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/2018/07/23/immigration-and-the-border-are-suddenly-tough-issues-for-trudeau#gs.27Zlm2s">Bloomberg</a>, because he&#8217;s had such a loose policy on allowing asylum seekers to penetrate Canada&#8217;s southern border.
Bloomberg Quint reports that Trudeau is facing a &#8216;backlash&#8221; in his home country for comments he made back in 2017, right after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, declaring Canada a safe space for immigrants turned down by the United States.
&#8220;To those fleeing persecution, terror &amp; war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength,&#8221; Trudeau tweeted in response to news that the U.S. would apply greater force to stemming the flow of illegal immigrants across its own southern border.
That tweet is now being featured in an anti-Trudeau commercial.
It turns out that while Trudeau may find immigration fascinating, his countrymen do not. They don&#8217;t refer to border jumpers as illegal &#8212; they prefer the more Canadian term, &#8220;irregular&#8221; &#8212; but they are concerned that the steady flow of asylum seekers, many of whom are coming through &#8220;unofficial&#8221; border crossings in upstate New York, are taxing the country&#8217;s welfare system.
&#8220;Regular&#8221; border-crossers seeking Canadian citizenship must be skilled workers, or have something to offer their new nation. Canada has a decade-long process of naturalization as well, and requires potential immigrants to routinely prove their worth to immigration officials. Asylum seekers, however, are allowed to stay in the country until their asylum claim has been adjudicated, like in the United States, but also like in the U.S., Canada often has to absorb those thousands of &#8220;irregular&#8221; immigrants seeking asylum into their welfare system.
That puts Trudeau in an odd situation politically. A full 53% of Canadians &#8220;thought the country was being too generous to people who cross the border illegally&#8221; in a recent poll. Among conservatives, the number jumps to 75%.

REPORT: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Faces &#8216;Backlash&#8217; Over Loose Immigration Policies

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Last week, Canadian Prime Minster and self-described feminist Justin Trudeau addressed for the first time publicly a groping allegation dating back 18 years that has increasingly become a thorn in his side. Shortly after his vague denial to the press, the accuser, a former journalist, &#8220;reluctantly&#8221; broke her silence.
The allegation was first leveled against Trudeau in an unsigned op-ed published by the Creston Valley Advance in 2000, just days after a music festival in Creston, British Columbia. The <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-addresses-groping-allegation-from-2000-says-he-doesnt-recall/">Canadian Press</a> reports:
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In the days that followed, an editorial appeared in the Creston Valley Advance alleging Trudeau had apologized to an unnamed female reporter at the newspaper after &#8220;groping&#8221; her at the event. It alleged he told the woman he would not have &#8220;been so forward&#8221; if he had known she was reporting for a national newspaper.
The unsigned editorial resurfaced recently and has led to calls for the prime minister to address the allegations.
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Amid mounting pressure to address the allegation, Trudeau <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32527/justin-trudeau-breaks-silence-groping-allegation-james-barrett">told</a> the Canadian Press last Sunday that he remembers the day of the alleged groping incident &#8220;well,&#8221; but does not remember &#8220;any negative interactions that day at all.&#8221;
&#8220;I remember that day in Creston well, it was an Avalanche Foundation event to support avalanche safety,&#8221; said the prime minister. &#8220;I had a good day that day. I don&#8217;t remember any negative interactions that day at all.&#8221;
Later in the week, he elaborated on his defense. &#8220;I do not feel that I acted inappropriately in any way, but I respect the fact that someone else might have experienced that differently,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-woman-breaks-silence-pm-groping-allegation-022744018.html">told the press</a>. Asked if he was going to open an investigation into the issue to be consistent with his &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy on sexual assault, the prime minister sidestepped the question by repeating his assertion of innocence. &#8220;Often a man experiences an interaction as being benign or not inappropriate and a woman, particularly in a professional context, can experience it differently. We have to respect that,&#8221; he said.
On Friday, his accuser, former journalist Rose Knight, broke her 18-year silence in a <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/woman-accused-trudeau-breaks-silence-1.4737511">statement</a> to CBC that seems to contradict Trudeau&#8217;s denial.
&#8220;I issue this statement reluctantly, in response to mounting media pressure to confirm that I was the reporter who was the subject of the Open Eyes editorial, published in the Creston Valley Advance in August of 2000,&#8221; wrote Knight. &#8220;The incident referred to in the editorial did occur, as reported. Mr. Trudeau did apologize the next day. I did not pursue the incident at the time and will not be pursuing the incident further. I have had no subsequent contact with Mr. Trudeau, before or after he became Prime Minister.&#8221;
Knight concluded by underscoring that she will make no further comment on the matter. &#8220;The debate, if it continues, will continue without my involvement,&#8221; she wrote.
In its coverage of the scandal, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-woman-breaks-silence-pm-groping-allegation-022744018.html">AFP</a> notes that when Trudeau came to power, he made a point of portraying himself as a feminist, even forming a cabinet that was equally represented by men and women.

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