If he wins a majority, he won't step down. C'mon. He is going to get away with this, the SNC Lavalin scandal, and being a dick to Indigenous protesters ("Thank you for your donation.").
Last time I checked, Justin Trudeau has been Prime Minister for almost five years with a large majority mandate. There a number of things he could have changed without the consultation of other parties. The onus and responsibility falls on him and his office.
I've had several friends who are racialized minorities talk to me about this and they are all so disgusted at the whole situation. There is a leader of the country, doing brownface, and who is the absolute picture of privilege. My friends are having conversations with other white 'progressive' friends telling them that it's really not a big deal, that culturally it is not the same as the United States, and that they can't vote for a party lead by a person who is a racialized minority because we, as Canadians, need to vote for the guy who has done brownface to make sure minorites keep their rights. Why would they get involved? The system has been very clearly rigged to benefit Trudeau and people like him. Where is there room for them in political discourse to be involved as anything other than continuing to empower Trudeau, or be insinuated to be traitors to other minorities by supporting someone else?
But this reasoning will continue. Despite his flaws and that he does not deserve to win, Trudeau will win. And he will not step down.
So can we at least be adults and acknowledge how shitty this is, how shitty the entire political discourse is, and that it has been set up to reward a person who should realistically not be our PM? Can we stop handwaiving the brownface and other questionable decisions?
