BURNABY, B.C. — Less than two hours after taking a private call on board his campaign bus, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said “it doesn’t matter” what the Liberal leader said to him regarding old photos that surfaced showing Justin Trudeau in blackface and brownface. “It doesn’t matter what he tells me. I’m not a proxy for the people of Canada,” Singh told a crowd of around 200 supporters at a town hall in Burnaby Tuesday evening. According to reports from the bus, Singh took Trudeau’s call while they were en route to the meeting, and it lasted around 15-20 minutes.
The call came after a bombshell report from Time magazine last week which published a photo of Trudeau in brownface at an “Arabian Nights” themed party in 2001. Since then, two other instances of a younger Trudeau in racist makeup have emerged.
I’m not a proxy for the people of Canada.”NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
While he didn’t divulge the details of his call with the Liberal leader, Singh — who is Sikh and the first non-white leader of a federal party in Canada — told his supporters Trudeau needed to redeem himself to every Canadian hurt by the photos.
“I don’t think that he understands what people are going through,” Singh said. “The people of Canada who were hurt, they need to know that he understands.”
:Source: online–news.com
Sunday, April 19, 2026
