Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001. TIME magazine has obtained a photograph of the incident.
The picture was taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed school party. It shows Trudeau, then the 29-year-old son of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, wearing a turban and robes with his face, neck and hands completely darkened.
Trudeau, facing re-election next month, apologized and said it was "a dumb thing to do." “It was something that I didn’t think was racist at the time, but now I recognize it was something racist to do and I am completely sorry."
OPPOSITION REACTION: Opposition party leaders pounced on this latest scandal for the prime minister, just weeks before the October election.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer said he was, "extremely shocked and disappointed when I learned of Justin Trudeau's actions. It was just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2019." He said Trudeau had demonstrated that he was, "not fit to govern this country." New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh said, "It's troubling. It's really, it's insulting."
People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier had perhaps the most caustic reaction, Tweeting, "I’m not going to accuse Justin Trudeau of being a racist. But he’s the master of identity politics and the [Liberal Party] just spent months accusing everyone of being white supremacists. He definitely is the biggest hypocrite in the country."
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