[Leyland Cecco] What you had was this Prime Minister who
was a self-proclaimed feminist, he was– he was woke.
He's handing out jackets to Syrian refugees who
arrived in the dead of winter. He would mend, you know,
the incredibly fractured relationship that Canada has
with its indigenous peoples. He would make a show
of the importance of diversity, the inclusion in politics
by making not just a gender-balanced but you know, an ethnically
diverse cabinet. [Justin Trudeau]
A cabinet that looks like Canada.
He captured this kind of
very, very new and exciting celebrity in Canadian politics.
But you know there's that old adage, 'You live by
the sword, you die by the sword'. and he became increasingly
over his tenure as Prime Minister embroiled in a number of scandals.
[TV host] Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
is dealing with a growing scandal tonight. It involves what he allegedly
told a top official to do about a major company involved
in a corruption investigation.
[Leyland Cecco] Trudeau had been improperly
pressuring his Attorney General to cut out a sweetheart deal
for a large construction company that was accused of bribery
and corruption in Libya in 2011. [Trudeau] I and my staff
always acted appropriately. I completely disagree with
the characterization of the former Attorney General.
[Music and chants]
[TV reporter] Pipeline protesters came
to confront Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet,
angry over the Liberal government's decision to buy the
Trans Mountain Pipeline.
[Leyland Cecco] He said that Canada would be
an ally in the fight against the climate crisis.
You call yourself a climate leader and you buy a pipeline.
[TV host] There is a major development this hour,
another image of Trudeau wearing what appears
to be blackface. His arms and legs
are darkened too.
[Leyland Cecco] It's pretty optically damaging
when the Prime Minister admits that he also can't recall how many
times he's done it in his past. [Trudeau] This is something
that I deeply, deeply regret.
[Leyland Cecco] If you're a Liberal voter,
you're probably not going to go Conservative because
of this. It's not each individual scandal, it's the sum of all the parts
of the last four years for him. If you're a young voter who
sees a Prime Minister buy a pipeline, dress up in blackface, fire two key
women in the party, chance are you are probably not going to be
that motivated to come out and vote for him.
We've got Andrew Scheer in the Conservative party...
[Andrew Scheer] So we can put money
back in your pocket so you can get ahead.
We've got Jagmeet Singh, of the New Democratic Party.
[Jagmeet Singh] Canadians are feeling the impact
of the climate crisis and we have to fight it.
I think he's got a lot to answer for. He mocked
the people. [Scheer] He can't even
remember how many times he put blackface on.
He's always wearing a mask. You are a phony, and
you are a fraud.
[Leyland Cecco] Even if the Conservatives,
you know, win a majority or a minority government,
this is not a conservative movement of the kind of far-right populist politics.
But if you care about the environment and the Conservatives win,
you'll be frustrated.
[Greta Thunberg] Do your part instead of leaving
that responsibility to us.
[Crowd cheers]
[Leyland Cecco] He always said, you know,
'We're going to keep fighting climate change'.
[Trudeau] Climate change is the challenge of our generation
and the time to act is now.
[Leyland Cecco] But the Trudeau government's not
on the pace to meet their Paris targets.
The left, you know the Green Party, the New Democratic Party
can really say 'Your house is on fire and you're now throwing
gasoline on it, this is not how a climate leader acts,
by buying a pipeline'.
Justin Trudeau by and large
will probably be the Prime Minister on Tuesday. What we are going
to see is Trudeau, who had a pretty clear majority in 2015,
give up a lot of that majority and probably have a minority
government but I don't think you're going to see a fundamental
reshaping of Canada, no matter who wins the election.
It's not going to be a far-right populist government seizing power in Canada.
It's not going to be a radical leftist, environmentally-conscious government.
You know, the ship may turn 10 degrees to the right or the left but we're
not going to see that fundamental reshaping of Canadian politics
that we might see in other countries in an election like this.