After brownface scandal, how do minority Canadians view Trudeau?
Posted on AllSides September 24th, 2019
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Personal scandals or public policies – which matter more to race relations? That’s a question voters in one of Toronto’s majority-minority neighborhoods are grappling with in the wake of images of the Canadian prime minister in brownface.
As a black woman and immigrant, Bridget Phillip says she understands the subtleties of hidden racism in Canadian society, even if she herself has never been the direct victim of it.
But when she saw the now infamous images of her Prime Minister Justin Trudeau donning black- and brownface in his past, she...
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