It is hard to find a politician in Canada who could be said to be more divisive in nature than Justin Trudeau, but despite the odds stacked against him Jagmeet Singh always is trying to take that mantle, never missing an opportunity to smear Canadians who don’t vote for him as racist, sexist and insert-a-phobic. He spread disinformation about the Freedom Convoy like the arson hoax, and the man is even banned from India for his support of the violent extremists in the Khalistani movement.
Coming back from an event for one of his MP’s in Peterborough on May 12 Jagmeet Singh was met with an angry crowd who yelled obscenities at him. The F-word was said and he was called a “traitor.” Shockingly, after the incident, there was not a total collapse of society and the world did not spin off its axis.
This is one of those situations where a lot of things can be true at the same time. Was this crass behaviour by the protestors? Yes. Did Jagmeet instigate this by inciting hatred and goading anyone on the political right for years with his platform as NDP leader? Yes. Do two wrongs make a right? No.
