Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing for wearing brown facial makeup to an 鈥淎rabian Nights鈥� party in 2001, saying he should have known better, and he鈥檚 asking for the forgiveness of Canadians.
Trudeau also says that in high school, he wore makeup while performing a version of the Harry Belafonte song, 鈥淏anana Boat Song (Day-O).鈥�
He made the apology 鈥� and the admission 鈥� in a news conference on board his campaign plane after the photo was published online earlier Friday by Time magazine.
. is expected to speak later this evening. This is the photo, spreading rapidly online now, that obtained from a West Point Grey Academy yearbook 2000-2001.
鈥� Ashley Wadhwani (@ashwadhwani)
More to come.
The Canadian Press
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