Trudeau in India: looking for greater common ground

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What's wrong with your PM? Is he mentally ill? I don't remember Theresa May going all Bollywood when she visited India over a year ago.

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Is it just me or is this choreographed cuteness all just a bit much now? Also FYI we Indians don’t dress like this every day sir, not even in Bollywood


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Even if Trudeau was an Indian groom at his wedding reception he’d look ridiculously overdressed. https://twitter.com/justintrudeau/status/966065322208894976 …
 
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I found the common ground. Both are trying to screw the Canadian taxpayer. Bend over boys and girls.
Well the girls probably don't have to worry about trudOWE.
 
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Justin Trudeau's India visit deemed a 'slow-moving train wreck' amid claims he was 'snubbed'

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is visiting India this week.
There's much talk that he's been "snubbed" by government officials, and the local media has given him less coverage than some expected.
Both Indian and Canadian sides dismissed the suggestion of any diplomatic cold shoulder.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is visiting India this week.
There's much talk that he's been "snubbed" by government officials, and the local media has given him less coverage than some expected.
Both Indian and Canadian sides dismissed the suggestion of any diplomatic cold shoulder

According to many commentators in the media, the Indian government is wary of Trudeau for his alleged ties to advocates for a separate Sikh homeland, called Khalistan, in the Punjab region.
In fact, Canada's National Post notes that Trudeau's cabinet has had four Sikhs in it, including one who an Indian official labeled a sympathizer to the separatists. The Canadian leader, the National Post says, once even bragged that his cabinet had more Sikhs in it than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"[The trip] is best described as a slow-moving train wreck ... Very little substance has come out of it and very little actually will emerge from this visit apart from some nice photo ops," Dehejia told CNBC on Wednesday.
Dehejia said he believes Trudeau's visit was orchestrated to appease the significant Sikh population in Canada, making the international trip essentially about domestic politics. Trudeau's schedule for his visit to India has been scrutinized for including only half-a-day of official state engagements in New Delhi.
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Trudeau's 'Bollywood' wardrobe amuses India

When it comes to breaking out the traditional Indian outfits, no one is quite as committed as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, says the BBC's Ayeshea Perera.
Justin Trudeau is certainly no stranger to Indian wear - he has regularly worn it during official celebrations of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which is one of the most important events on the religious calendar. And as his picture from last year's festival shows, he certainly does not shy away from donning some true Bollywood-style bling.
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While there were a few comments about the elaborate silver motif on his traditional black sherwani at the time, these have absolutely paled in comparison to the reaction he has been getting in India over the past few days.
Mr Trudeau arrived for his first official visit to India on 17 February and has been jet-setting around the country to take part in what appears to be a series of photo ops cunningly designed to showcase his family's elaborate traditional wardrobe.
The trip, which has just one day of official engagements despite being a full week in duration, has raised eyebrows in Canada with Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre wishing him "another wonderful vacation."

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But Indians are sitting up and taking notice for an entirely different reason. And that is the fact that his outfits have just been so...extra.

The Canadian first family has worn traditional Indian outfits no less than three times on their trip so far.
The first time was while they visited the Sabarmati ashram, the residence of Mahatma Gandhi in the western state of Gujarat. The family, wearing colourful casual kurta shirts and garlands of flowers around their necks, posed in front of a traditional spinning wheel before visiting the Akshardam temple where they posed some more with bemused Indian trustees.
Indian media published pictures of the family, commenting on their "festive" and "resplendent" traditional attire with headlines like "Trudeau's day out".
They wore more sober but no less elaborate outfits when they visited the Golden Temple, one of the holiest shrines for Sikhs, located in the northern state of Punjab. Mr Trudeau wore a white sherwani with gold thread work, while the rest of his family also had a strong gold theme running through their clothes.
They posed for pictures with heads appropriately bowed and hands folded before Mr Trudeau met Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh who looked visibly underdressed in comparison.
At this point, some people were beginning to notice a trend and were not quite sure it all worked, including the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah.
https://twitter.com/OmarAbdullah/status/966218016286441472
But Mr Trudeau was by no means done.
His family met several Bollywood stars in the western city of Mumbai and he wore an elaborate and heavily worked sherwani, more in tune with what a bridegroom would wear...in a Bollywood film. His wife wore an embroidered sari and his children were also decked out in what can only be described as Indian wedding wear.
The outfits stood out all the more because the Bollywood stars around him - who should perhaps take the blame for his wardrobe decisions - were in sober black suits.
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PMO rescinds invitation to Sikh extremist

NEW DELHI - The prime minister’s office has rescinded an invitation to a reception in Delhi to a man who was convicted of trying to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister in 1986.
A senior official from Justin Trudeau’s office says an invitation to Jaspal Atwal issued by the High Commission to India for Thursday's reception was a mistake and was corrected as soon as it was found out.
But the error wasn't caught until after Atwal had already attended a reception with Trudeau on Tuesday evening and posed for photos with both Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi.
The news comes just one day after Trudeau said he condemned violent extremism and tried to convince the chief minister of Punjab that his government was not sympathetic to the Sikh separatist cause.
"This individual should never have been invited to any event on the program, and his invitation has been rescinded," said a spokeswoman with the Prime Minister's Office. "We are in the process of looking into how this occurred."
The spokeswoman added that Atwal is not part of the PM's official delegation to India, nor was he invited by the Prime Minister’s Office.
"As is the case with international trips, individuals sometimes travel on their own to the location of the visit." she said.
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However, it turns out Atwal was invited by Liberal MP Randeep Sarai, who represents the B.C. riding of Surrey Centre. Sarai is one of the 14 MPs travelling with Trudeau on this trip.
Officials in the Prime Minister's Official wouldn't comment on the vetting process that allowed these two invitations to slip through. A spokesperson said they do not comment on matters relating to the PM's security.
The embarrassing setbacks raise questions about the adequacy of both security and diplomatic preparations for Trudeau's trip. Trudeau appeared grim Thursday morning during a visit to the Jama mosque, one of the biggest mosques in India. He did not respond to a question thrown at him at a mosque photo op, nor did he respond when the questions were repeatedly shouted to him at a cricket pitch in Delhi Thursday afternoon.
Media were kept more than 50 metres away from Trudeau at the cricket pitch where his three children, Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien, each took turns with a cricket bat while Trudeau looked on.
Trudeau and his family also visited the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Delhi Thursday, where he and his family lit candles and prayed.
Atwal was a member of the International Sikh Youth Federation, a banned terrorist group in Canada and India, when he was convicted of the attempted murder of an Indian cabinet minister. He was one of four men who ambushed and shot Malkiat Singh Sidhu in a car on Vancouver Island in 1986. Sidhu was wounded.
Atwal was also convicted in an automobile fraud case and was charged, but not convicted, in connection with a 1985 attack on Ujjal Dosanjh, a staunch opponent of the Sikh separatist movement's push for an independent Sikh state of Khalistan. Dosanjh went on to become premier of British Columbia and a federal cabinet minister.
Wednesday afternoon Trudeau met with Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh who has repeatedly accused the Trudeau government and several of his cabinet ministers of being Khalistani sympathizers. Khalistan is the name of the independent Sikh state sought by some members of the Sikh community.
Trudeau told Singh Canada supports a united India and said he would look into concerns financing for Sikh separatist extremists was coming out of Canada, and Singh was happy with the meeting. Singh has not yet responded to the news Atwal was part of this trip.
Tensions between Canada and India have risen in recent years over Indian concerns about a rise in Sikh extremism coming from some of Canada's Sikh communities. Trudeau's appearances at some Sikh events where extremist supporters also showed up caused unhappiness in India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised the issue with Trudeau several times and it likely will come up again when the two leaders meet Friday in Delhi.
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It could be construed as insulting to the Indians to have Justin strutting around in comic opera costumes. A three piece suit would have signalled that we take India seriously. But this? ...

Imagine of the next US Ambassador to Canada shows up dressed up like a Lumberjack and his wife like Rose Marie.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
It could be construed as insulting to the Indians to have Justin strutting around in comic opera costumes. A three piece suit would have signalled that we take India seriously. But this? ...

Imagine of the next US Ambassador to Canada shows up dressed up like a Lumberjack and his wife like Rose Marie.
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Curious Cdn said:
It could be construed as insulting to the Indians to have Justin strutting around in comic opera costumes. A three piece suit would have signalled that we take India seriously. But this? ...

Imagine of the next US Ambassador to Canada shows up dressed up like a Lumberjack and his wife like Rose Marie.
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And yet the stupid shit admonishes Canadians for engaging in cultural appropriation. This goof really is an embarrassment to Canada. Nice to see the rest of the world is starting to learn just what a useless, platitude spewing moron he really is.

Trudeau in India: looking for greater common ground
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More like looking to bilk the Canadian taxpayer for yet ANOTHER family vacation.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
It could be construed as insulting to the Indians to have Justin strutting around in comic opera costumes. A three piece suit would have signalled that we take India seriously. But this? ...

Imagine of the next US Ambassador to Canada shows up dressed up like a Lumberjack and his wife like Rose Marie.
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Cultural appropriation!

Crucify him!

Crucify him!
 
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