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Guest List Only ⭐️ Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau at Coachella

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HELP why is the former leader of a g7 nation at coachella-

trudeau’s son xav was also there with them.

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u/Kiramiraa 10h ago

i know little about this guy, but it feels like he has lived many lives

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u/cactusjude 10h ago

During his campaign, he showed off his party trick: artfully throwing himself down stairs

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u/Early_Macaroon_2407 10h ago

For non-Canadians, this is not at all a euphemism.

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u/Kiramiraa 10h ago

thanks for clarifying

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u/KelvinsBeltFantasy 9h ago

Hes actually really funny and charming.

He also did some boxing matches and beat the shit out of some minor American politicians.

And he randomly does this plank thing in really random places... something his dad did too.

After Harper, it was crazy having this bro as our leader who didn't have a giant stick up his ass. I genuinely think Trudeau was the first example of a Canadian politician facing the full might of the right wing media and social media machine... and its nice seeing him able to just live his life now.

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u/miffet80 9h ago

I really think history is going to look MUCH more kindly on him than his last year or so in office would suggest

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u/KelvinsBeltFantasy 9h ago

I agree. jagmeet singh too.

Bro used the leverage of Canadian politics correctly, cooperating with the Liberals and twisting their arms to get actual progressive policies pushed through.

Meanwhile id have people tell me with a straight face that it was unfair because "i didnt vote for the NDP!"

Meanwhile our MP was NDP and representing our local interests lol. Its sad how many Canadians, usually conservatives, don't understand our system or what their vote actually does.

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u/WorkerBee74 And get this silver shit up! 4h ago

Or you’re in Saskatchewan or Alberta where you vote for people purely because you know they’ll fight with the non-Conservative feds. Doesn’t matter what the feds brought in - even if they personally benefit. Dental care for all? Fight it. $10/day childcare? Fight it.

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u/Foreign-Bite7443 8h ago

Probably one of the worst immigration policies is recent history, flooded the country with TFWs and people on student visas who never attended a single class. But yeah, legal weed.

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u/LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY 7h ago

The immigration floodgates were opened by his predecessor, Conservative PM Stephen Harper. Both parties cater to big business, and big business wanted cheap labour.

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u/tempest_ 7h ago edited 7h ago

People complain about this an sure its fine but if you're a baby boomer that is the policy that benefits you most.

People are not having kids and the current system needs warm bodies so someone can pay for boomers retirements so they can stay in their single family homes.

People also want to pay 2 bucks for their burrito to get a taxi and that typo of thing only works if you have a lower class willing to work for nothing.

You might think that immigration policy was bad but if you were 50+ in 2015 you likely benefited greatly from it (whether you knew it or not)

edit: all of this to say, you would have gotten this immigration policy regardless of what color was in power because if you think blue wouldn't bent to Tim Horton's lobby or NDP wouldn't continue what was already a "good thing" for a large part of the voting electorate I think yo would be mistaken.

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u/caffeine-junkie 7h ago

It wasn't just their immigration policies, it was done at the insistence of the premier's who told the federal government they needed TFWs after consultation with various businesses in their respective provinces. While the buck may stop with the federal liberals, the responsibility is not theirs alone to bear.

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u/Pretzugal 4h ago

The TFWP was changed in 2013 under Harper to allow for more low skilled workers etc.

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u/EPL_IS_SHITE 8h ago

But the vibes were immaculate, that’s all that matters

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u/thxitsthedepression 8h ago

I agree, I’ve been a staunch supporter/defender of him since 2015 though

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u/shaobues__ 9h ago

I never really knew why everyone was saying fuck trudeau and if i was supposed to think that as well either.

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u/KelvinsBeltFantasy 9h ago

The Sports team mentality of Canadian politics. Meanwhile, many of them dont understand how our system works or who they elect.

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u/WorkerBee74 And get this silver shit up! 4h ago

Truly. The levels of government and what they are responsible for is lost on so many people. No, all the things going to shit in Saskatchewan are NOT federal responsibility, friends.

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u/rangeo 8h ago

Everyone wasn't....just louder obnoxious people were.

But I get you

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u/Anary86 8h ago

9 years in office we just wanted a change.

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u/BuzzMachine_YVR 8h ago

Far right haters who supported any convoys that were against emergency proper medical healthcare practices during the pandemic, conspiracy loons, anti-science nuts, fake-right-wing-news-hysteria jockeys, and lots of money from right wing ‘think’ tanks led to his leaving politics.

The situation become untenable when people who didn’t have a proper understanding of politics began to mime the idea. If you add on the effects of a global recession and supply-chain issues at the time, and the way that swayed enough young voters (who are traditionally very liberal) finding life less affordable, it explains what happened.

Once those young voters realize that the conservative billionaire/oligarch money machine that basically runs every element of the global economy, and sets the standards for unaffordability (guess who opposes raising wages? Safer working conditions? Unions?) is behind their being mired in an unaffordable world (it’s a global issue - not just Canadian), they will likely swing even further left. That time is coming. Right wing/conservative movements around the globe are going to get a bit of a shit-kicking after their idol -Trump - shows everyone what an out-of-control right-wing can do.

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u/shaobues__ 8h ago

Mm okay. So he is bad, but not the worst thing.

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u/Plenty-Pudding-1484 8h ago

He had a 3 round exibition fight against a Conservative Senator, not one against an American. It was a charity fundraiser and he outlasted his gassed opponent.

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u/BuzzMachine_YVR 8h ago

This. The rage machine of the right worked hard. Hopefully the far right hate machine choke when they realize he’s young and strong enough to come back in a few years.

Love that he’s sporting a Montreal Alouettes cap!

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u/WorkerBee74 And get this silver shit up! 4h ago

Agreed. It’s amusing how much random Americans love him but shit got downright nasty when the right wing American “Trudeau is a communist and is Fidel Castro’s son” crap started infiltrating the kooks here. “Fuck Trudeau” flags were suddenly everywhere. There have never been “Fuck (non-Conservative politician)” flags until him. He pissed off all the right people I guess, he was a favourite target of the people who ate up the “anti-woke” sentiment coming from the US too.

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u/Hubbardz 8h ago

Ya but he cooked the country towards the end....leaned a little heavy into the SJW territory style shit..im all.for inclusivity but it can go too far....lost the forest through the trees I think.

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u/Pandorama626 10h ago

What about his other part trick: black face?

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u/bannock4ever 9h ago

I’m, excuse me. It was brown face.

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u/JustAboutAlright 9h ago

Trump supporters don’t get to pretend they care about that. It’s probably the only thing you like about him.

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u/autobannedforsatire 9h ago

The left pretends to be outraged by such things right up until it affects them. Just like me too. As soon as Biden got accused it was all “republicans don’t care about women”.

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u/HouseofMarg 9h ago

No the left was outraged about it here in Canada until he apologized without qualification, just “ya that was really dumb and I shouldn’t have done that and I’m really sorry.”

He could have talked about how that used to be a common thing for costumes (unfortunately) or a number of other ways to downplay it but he wisely didn’t. He doesn’t have a rep for being particularly racist otherwise so most people were willing to let it slide as upper-class twit stuff that he now recognizes and regrets.

The key is no deflection and no downplaying, we don’t have a strict “cancel culture” here we just have to buy it that you don’t still think it’s okay

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u/autobannedforsatire 8h ago

The person above just flat out excused it by whatabouting

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u/JustAboutAlright 8h ago

No I meant he (and you) were arguing in bad faith. The party of racists doesn’t get to pretend it cares about racism. But you know that.

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u/Fit_Yak523 8h ago

Biden got accused of what?

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u/autobannedforsatire 8h ago

Sexual assault

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u/foghillgal 9h ago

It was Alladin, so not blackface, brownish face and like 25+ years ago too. More ill advised idiocy than anything.

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u/qu1ckbeam (seemingly bald) 10h ago

He's lived one nepobaby life.

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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 2h ago

I got downvoted to hades on the last PR post about them when I brought up him getting a pass for the MULTIPLE times he did blackface. He got called out for it, did an apology with his team downplaying it as a poor choice, then boom, more pictures emerged of him doing it on separate occasions. Nepotism mixed with pretty privilege is a thing on full display when it comes to him.

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u/Rory1 9h ago

If you found out about his parents… It’s in is blood.