During his blackface scandal last year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the “layers of privilege” he grew up with blinded him to the fact that donning blackface was racist.
We’d argue Trudeau’s latest conflict-of-interest scandal in the WE Charity controversy — the third one he’s being investigated for by the ethics commissioner — stems from the same problem.
That is, that Trudeau, who grew up as the son of a former prime minister, is an elitist who believes he is privileged, and thus entitled to ignore the standards of ethical-political conduct that apply to lesser mortals.
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