Justin Trudeau pushed aside global mockery of his decisions years ago to dress in blackface, arguing Friday heB次元官网网址檚 focused on apologizing to Canadians B次元官网网址� including his rival, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.
Trudeau has reached out to Singh to talk since the release of three different images showing the Liberal leader in black- or brownface that Singh condemned as personally hurtful.
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Singh said he is open to talking to the Liberal leader, as long it remains a private conversation, declining to disclose what heB次元官网网址檇 say to Trudeau.
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Where he wants to keep the focus, Singh said, is on all of the Canadians whoB次元官网网址檝e been hurt by what Trudeau did.
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The worldB次元官网网址檚 press has wasted no time pouncing on three separate instances in the 1990s and 2000s where Trudeau acknowledged he committed the racist act of painting his face and hands black or brown for various costume events.
There were headlines around the globe, Trudeau was the butt of late-night comic jokes in the U.S. Thursday night and even U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in Friday morning.
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Trudeau sought to change the channel Friday by announcing his partyB次元官网网址檚 marquee policy on gun control, which includes a pledge to ban assault rifles. He also promised to allow municipalities the right to ban hand guns, a policy also advocated by the NDP.
Singh was shopping his policy on expanding pharmacare and dental care on the campaign trail Friday.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was also campaigning on the health care theme, pledging $1.5 billion to buy new medical imaging equipment for facilities across the country. He said buying MRI and CT machines to replace aging ones will reduce wait times.
ScheerB次元官网网址檚 party was behind the release of video documenting a third time Trudeau wore blackface, this one shot in the early 1990s. His campaign received the clip and turned it over to Global TV. Trudeau said Friday that video was from a costume day for river guides at the white-water rafting company he worked for in the early 1990s.
Scheer said Friday heB次元官网网址檚 not aware of the existence of any more photos or videos. Trudeau has said he wonB次元官网网址檛 say definitively there arenB次元官网网址檛, as he doesnB次元官网网址檛 necessarily remember everything.
While Trudeau talked of a gun ban, Green Leader Elizabeth May promised a ban of her own B次元官网网址� on the kinds of cars the vast majority of people drive. A ban on internal combustion engine passenger vehicles by 2030 is part of her partyB次元官网网址檚 broader transportation strategy unveiled Friday which seeks to get to zero-carbon transportation in Canada.
PeopleB次元官网网址檚 Party Leader Maxime Bernier is trying to hold onto his own seat in Quebec and is spending today campaigning there, though he has a swing to Western Canada next week.
Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press
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