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An event in this province demonstrated that even politicians of the highest rank can survive their own massive bozo eruptions — one that was, arguably, worse than theman-child behaviour we’ve just witnessed from Justin Trudeau in those images from his past.

But we learned here in Saskatchewan that political survival under such circumstances depends on a few critical factors — timing, demonstrating contrition for your behaviour and showing that you are no longer the person you were at the time of the indiscretion.

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The growing stream of images of a Canadian prime minister in brown-face pretending that he’s Aladdin and in blackface singing a Harry Belafonte song now seems to be the writing of Trudeau’s political obituary because it plays into already-existing public suspicions nurtured by Conservatives that he is an unserious lightweight unfit for the job.

Whether Trudeau should resign may now be moot. Voters are likely to make his career choice for him. And while Saskatchewan proved that — depending on the circumstances — voters can be very forgiving, they need time and reason to forgive. Trudeau has neither the luxury of the former nor grounds for the latter.