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For reasons unbeknown to The Advocate, society has been left reeling yet again at the news that an over-privileged, privately-educated son of somebody important turned out be an arsehole.

The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has this week admitted to wearing blackface for a third time, telling reporters in Ottowa that he’s not exactly sure how many times he’s done it.

“Don’t be shocked if something else comes up, folks,” he said.

But Canadian aren’t laughing.

Justin Trudeau’s approval rating was once the envy of world leaders, second only in popular praise across the world to the Kingdom of Bhutan’s Lotay Tshering.

Now his approval rating dripping down the walls of the outhouse.

As the son of a former Prime Minister of Canada, young Justin was afforded many opportunities that only a handful of people on Earth could ever dream of. While he may have matured into a polite, overly kind man, the fact remains that he wore blackface as that young man. A young man who had everything.

The Canadian Consular General here in Betoota sat down with our reporter in the French Quarter’s Machattie Park where they discussed the blackface fallout, the upcoming Canadian general election and how the legacy of NHL great Wayne Gretsky is the yardstick by which all sporting legacies should be measured.

“Here, have a hit of this. We can get bags of BC bud back here in our diplomatic luggage,” said Consul Mark Rosenberg.

Our reporter had one hit and passed it to The Advocate‘s last remaining staff photographer, who almost immediately greened out.

“It’ll be interesting to see how this will affect Justin’s campaign,” said Mark as he rolled our photographer into the recovery position.

“But I can see what you mean. Most private school kids with rich and powerful parents grow up to be giant dickholes. Guess we all thought Justin was an exception to that rule. Oh well, eh?”

At this point, our reporter just nodded and lay down to spoon the photographer.

“Don’t worry guys, you won’t feel like this forever,” said Consul Mark.

“Just sleep it off.”

More to come.

