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Look: bad people do bad things.

KINSELLA: Don't support bad people who do bad things Back to video

True in politics, true in real life.

In politics, being bad or doing bad things isn’t always fatal. Bad people sometimes win. Donald Trump, Richard Nixon et al. It happens.

But people who are good – or who claim to be good – shrugging about a bad person doing bad things in politics? That shouldn’t happen.

Justin Trudeau, for example. He wore racist blackface and was alleged by a woman to have groped her. He hid both until they leaked out.

For me, those were disqualifying events. Forget about becoming Prime Minister – Trudeau should have never, ever been green-lit as a Liberal candidate. If his surname had been different, he wouldn’t have been.

But his party’s caucus and his party’s members defended him. They shrugged. They looked the other way. They traded principles for power.

Me, a lifelong Liberal, couldn’t. I’d spent decades fighting racism and sexism and their variants and I couldn’t just shrug. So I left.

And, in the end, I found........

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