Will Canada Dump Trudeau?
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🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Time Magazine released photos of a 29-year-old Justin Trudeau in blackface. In the days following, the Canadian Prime Minister admitted to two more instances of using blackface. The Canadian election is a month away. How will Trudeau’s latest scandal effect it?
Guest: Jesse Brown, host of Canadaland podcast.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt and Mara Silvers
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| 0:00.0 | Political rivals of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. |
| 0:08.0 | They've had this nickname for him, for a while now. |
| 0:11.0 | The Mr. Dress-Up Prime Minister. |
| 0:14.0 | Here he is in Indigenous ceremonial dress. Here he is in Jewish attire. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Brown hosts the Canada Land podcast. |
| 0:22.2 | He says conservative members of parliament |
| 0:23.9 | they'd even pass around Trudeau photos. |
| 0:27.1 | He might be dressed like Superman or trick-or-treating as Han Solo |
| 0:30.4 | or just trying to fit in with a foreign dignitary. |
| 0:34.3 | Putting all these images together |
| 0:35.5 | would get a chuckle across the political spectrum. |
| 0:39.5 | So when images surfaced last week of Trudeau in blackface and brown face, it was shocking. |
| 0:46.9 | But after apologizing, Trudeau almost seemed to play it off. Like, hey, you know me. I'm the guy who gets dressed up. Yeah, I think the specific |
| 0:56.1 | thing you said was something like, I can be more enthusiastic about costumes than is sometimes |
| 1:01.7 | appropriate, which is true. He is overly enthusiastic about costumes. How many photos have |
| 1:10.7 | come out at this point? There are three photos in one out at this point? |
| 1:11.4 | There are three photos in one video at this point. |
| 1:14.1 | Two of the photos are from one event. |
| 1:15.9 | So there's three different instances of him in brown face or black face. |
| 1:22.3 | There's one video clip where Trudeau is wearing an Afro wig. |
| 1:26.1 | In other photos, he's dressed up like Aladdin |
| 1:28.4 | and an Arabian nights themed party for a school where he was teaching. |
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