- Latest polls suggest that support for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has dropped to 36% following a controversial trip to India.
- In New Delhi, Trudeau incited debate when he attended a dinner in the Canadian high commissioner’s residence. Jaspal Atwal, a Sikh extremist who served jail time in Canada, was also on the guest list.
- Trudeau’s circle attempted to lay the blame on both the Indian government and on a Sikh Canadian MP.
- Trudeau also caused offense by wearing brightly colored traditional Indian clothing.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s honeymoon with voters was supposed to end on May 18, 2016. In Parliament that day, members of the leftist New Democratic Party (NDP) attempted to obstruct their fellow MPs as they took their assigned places to vote on a time-sensitive motion. In a scene captured on video, Trudeau pushed a Conservative Party opposition member through the crowd to hurry things along, elbowing a female member of the NDP in the process. The Conservative MP Peter Van Loan described it as “physical molestation.” An NDP member called it “assault.” Pundits coined it “Elbowgate” and declared that this would be the scandal that finally put a scratch on Teflon Trudeau’s political career.
It didn’t. Within a week, polls showed that voters didn’t care about Elbowgate. They also didn’t care much about Trudeau abandoning his campaign promises on electoral reform, revelations about his cash-for-access political fundraising, or his oddly affectionate comments following the death of Fidel Castro. For more than two years as prime minister — an eternity in politics — Trudeau’s government has seemed to defy gravity.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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