Trudeau makes campaign stop in Metro Vancouver
Credit to Author: Scott Brown| Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:44:32 +0000
The campaign trail brings Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau to the Lower Mainland Tuesday.
The prime minister is scheduled to make a morning stop at Nano One Materials, a Burnaby tech company, before attending a campaign rally in Surrey tonight. Trudeau will be joined by Randeep Sarai, the Liberal candidate for Surrey-Centre, at the Aria Banquet Hall (12350 Pattullo Place) at 7 p.m.
It’s Trudeau’s first visit to Metro Vancouver since becoming embroiled in a photo scandal.
Time magazine first posted a photo of Trudeau wearing “brownface” makeup at an “Arabian Nights” party in 2001, which was published in the yearbook from the West Point Grey Academy, a private school in Vancouver where Trudeau worked as a teacher before entering politics.
Photos have since surfaced that depicted Trudeau wearing dark makeup on two other occasions.
According to a survey from InSights West, 52 per cent of British Columbians view Trudeau’s face painting past as a serious issue for the governing Liberals ahead of the Oct. 21 federal election.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, the MP for Burnaby South, will be appear before the Vancouver Sun/The Province editorial board this afternoon and then later at rally tonight at the Firefighters Banquet and Conference Centre (6515 Bonsior Avenue) in Burnaby.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is campaigning in Ontario and Green Leader Elizabeth May is in the Maritimes.