Jagmeet Singh broke an unwritten rule of Campaign 2019 this week when he said that he hopes Donald Trump gets impeached. Yet so far the biggest American intrusion into the Canadian federal election has been Time magazine’s publication of old photos of Justin Trudeau in brownface. There seems to some unwritten agreement, Singh’s undiplomatic outburst excepted, to not talk about what surely should be a question — if not the most important one — in a Canadian election campaign in 2019. It’s this: how do we make sure that Canada doesn’t slide into the Trumpism we’re seeing south of the border? But while we’re exercising our democratic franchise here in Canada, why not talk about democracy itself, and how to keep it safe from Trumpism?

Source: thestar September 27, 2019 19:52 UTC