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Singh had a good night too, showing his sense of humour and better than average French. But will voters take notice of the party that is still stuck in the basement in the polls? The debate on debates has been a perennial nightmare of my life as leader of the Green Party. The world of murky criteria, back-room dealing, collusion between other parties to exclude Greens from debates, have been an anti-democratic scandal from 2008, 2011, and 2015. Unfortunately, I have been excluded from more debates than those which have included my voice. But with the newly formed Debates Commission, I thought that problem would be an issue of the past.
“You should cut your turban off.” Hours before the debate aired on Quebec television last night, Jagmeet Singh was shaking hands in Montreal’s Atwater Market when a man approached him with some unsolicited advice. “You know what?” he said, leaning in to speak quietly. “You should cut your turban off…. You’ll look like a real Canadian.” Singh was unflappable in his response: “Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That’s the beauty of Canada.
Singh is resolutely sanguine and philosophical in the way he discusses all of this—in an interview, he uses the word “frustrating,” but then immediately walks it back—but he acknowledges briefly that sometimes people’s focus on the way he looks interrupts his ability to talk about the issues he cares about.
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