the neo-liberal intelligentsia just doesn't get: it doesn't understand that there's a fundamental opposition to putting religious people in positions of power in this country, and that while it is strongest in quebec it is dominant pretty much everywhere outside of alberta - and even becoming dominant there, too.

the opposition to jagmeet singh is not going to be about what's on his head, it's going to be about what's in it. people are not going to like what he has to say, and they're especially not going to like where he's coming from when he says it. but, the press will endlessly obfuscate the point, and pretend it's about a fashion decision rather than that the fact that canada is a progressive country means it rejects the confluence of religion and politics.

electing somebody that thinks they have a magic beard is not progress, it is a leap backwards to the nineteenth century.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/10/09/pariahs-to-power-brokers-sikhs-have-become-a-major-political-force-in-canada.html

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.