The idea that our prime minister has put on brownface and blackface in the past is embarrassing, but the idea of Trudeau getting a second term knowing these images exist is even more discouraging and disappointing.

— Mia Anhoury, Montreal, Quebec

‘This is not America’

I am a Canadian of South Asian descent living in the United States. I am disappointed by these instances.

However, I think he has done a lot for people of color and immigration while in office, and that speaks more strongly to me than these instances.

I think brownface and blackface have very different implications in Canada and in the U.S., due to our different histories. Context is important.

I think people can change, and people can make mistakes.

— Chhavi Kankaria, Brooklyn, N.Y.

This is not America. This is Canada and although Trudeau’s Conservative opponent is borrowing a page from the American zeitgeist of faux political correctness to attack him, this is not who we are.

There are so many legitimate issues one can bring up with regard to Trudeau’s unfitness for office. SNC-Lavalin ring any bells?

For years, we Canadians have fought tooth and nail to keep our culture and our identity separate from the behemoth to the south. Now we have to suffer not only insults from your president, we have to sit like ducks, roll over and bow to the current American compulsion to throw everyone under the bus who can be thrown under the bus if they have the faintest whiff of political incorrectness anywhere about them.

— Memi von Gaza, Alberta