Trudeau in blackface row (again)

Justin Trudeau’s snap election has just gone from bad to worse. The incumbent Canadian prime minister decided last month to call a snap election to improve his parliamentary standing.

It was a contest no one wanted (or expected) and the move seems to have backfired spectacularly. Hectored by anti-vaxxers, lambasted for his COVID record and lampooned as ‘UnCanadian’ for calling a contest in a pandemic, Trudeau is hoping to preserve his current number of seats, let alone dream of increasing it.

Now just hours before the polls are due to open, a fresh photo has emerged of the hereditary premier grinning in blackface. Released by an anti-Trudeau campaign group, it shows the liberal icon at an Arabian Nights school event, clad in a turban and robes with his tongue protruding manically. Similar pictures from the same event infamously surfaced in 2019 but this is the first time this particular image has been released — and in glorious technicolor too.

A new photo of Trudeau in blackface has leaked.

It’s time to end the international embarrassment. Only Erin O’Toole can stop Justin Trudeau. pic.twitter.com/FcghmzKNEf

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) September 20, 2021

The timing of the release has clearly been designed to cause the amateur Bhangra-dancer maximum embarrassment by reviving memories of some of his worst moments in office. So many images had previously surfaced of Trudeau in black/brownface that he was forced to concede that he ‘could not remember’ just exactly how many times he had worn such decidedly un-PC attire.

Still, not to worry. Judging from the final campaign polls it looks like Trudeau will have plenty of time to recall all such incidents when he starts work on his post-premiership memoirs.

Image courtesy of https://opensea.io/collection/naughty-face-trudeau. This article was originally published on The Spectator’s UK website.