Canada's prime minister Trudeau apologized for the perceived slight of using face makeup as part of an Aladdin costume at a costume ball.

Subsequently it appeared that he also appeared in parties wearing blackface.

Blackface is racist because it is part of a longstanding US practice of mocking blacks using black face makeup on stage, in conjunction with denying them legal rights. I've never heard of any comparable practice of mocking Arabs. He certainly wasn't doing that by dressing as Aladdin, whom we know as the hero, not the villain, of an old story from the Middle East. I don't see racism there.

All this is small potatoes compared with his wrongs that have done great practical harm: silencing ministers to cover up corruption and advancing global disaster by pushing the export of tar sands oil.

Sad to say, his opponent in the election is probably even worse on all issues. The most progressive party with substantial support, the NDP, is half planet-roaster too.