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Hall Findlay noted Trudeau’s wealth before attacking his credibility on defending average working Canadians.

“You keep referring to the middle-class,” Hall Findlay said. “You yourself have admitted that you actually don’t belong to the middle-class. I find it a little challenging to understand how you would understand the real challenges facing Canadians.”

Hall Findlay also criticized what she saw as the breaking up of Canadians into income groups by referring to a middle-class.

“When did Canada become a society of class?” she asked. “Every Canadian wants to make sure that we have equality of opportunity. To narrow the conversation in an environment like that I think does damage to our entire society as Canadians where it is equality of opportunity that we should be looking for.”

But while some in the audience applauded Hall Findlay’s latter point, the decision to raise Trudeau’s income as an issue prompted widespread boos, not to mention a terse and angry response from Trudeau himself.

“From the very first day I chose to put my name forward to run for a contested nomination in the riding of Papineau, I got people coming at me to say ‘Well what do you know about representing one of the most economically disadvantaged ridings in the country?’ ” he said.

“I’ve been lucky in my life to have been given an opportunity to go to great schools, to travel around the world, and what is important for me is to put everything that I’ve received like each of us wants to in service of my community. And that is what my identity is all about.”