But Justin Trudeau, who has unleashed his party’s attack dogs on many political opponents for views he claims are racist and homophobic, wasn’t about to dilute such a potent political weapon. He ignored Wang’s appeal and effectively ended her political career.

Now Trudeau is on an apology tour. No pandering is beyond him. He has changed his Twitter profile picture to one of him smiling at a black person — we see Trudeau’s face and only the back of the black man’s head. Critics have said this move is akin to claiming, “Some of my best friends are black!”

But voters are having a tough time absorbing his latest example of rank hypocrisy. Before the blackface photos surfaced, “the Liberals were at or very close to a majority” in Parliament, pollster Frank Graves of EKOS Research told Reuters. “That’s completely turned around, and maybe the Conservatives are in majority range now.” He notes that the Liberal lead in Ontario, which has 40 percent of Canada’s voters, “appears to have evaporated almost overnight.”