Jagmeet Singh: Patent Flair, Problematic Morality
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now the eldest amongst the leaders of Canada’s three largest political parties. Let that sink in for a moment. While such a situation was no doubt inevitable with the passage of time, who would have guessed it would have materialized in just three short years.

Now while the leader of the Conservative Party, Andrew Sheer, is technically the youngest of the three (if only by a few months), he doesn’t quite exert the youthful exuberance of his latest colleague. The newly elected leader of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, seems to be the very epitome of a young, energetic and multicultural Canada – with a few extra drops panache.

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With morale amongst Canada’s left wing approaching orange crush proportions, some thought nothing could impede them in their road to 24 Sussex Drive (or perhaps Rideau Cottage). After all, having gotten through the leadership campaign with the support of a swooning media along with ceaselessly positive social media coverage, Jagmeet Singh managed to arrive at CBC’s Power and Politics this Monday without the slightest blotch to speak of.

The spotlight cast on major political leaders, however, has been known to have a way of uncovering what might have otherwise remained outside the public realm. It took but a single question, albeit one that had to be repeatedly asked, for the glimmering sheen that surrounded Singh’s very person to immediately …show more content…
Instead of answering the question posed to him, Singh tried speak about Hindu-Sikh relations – along with a great deal of other impertinent rhetoric.

At the very end of the interview, when directly asked “so you wont denounce those posters of Parmar”, Singh feigned ignorance to avoid answering the question by replying “I don't know who was responsible, but I think we need to find out who was truly responsible.” This despite the terrorist in question, Talwinder Singh Parmar, being described as both "the main perpetrator of the attack" and "the mastermind of the bombing of Flight 182" by the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight