2019 federal election campaign will be divisive, negative and nasty: Canada PM Trudeau
Toronto, Oct 3 (IBNS): Taking a swipe at the opposition parties, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday said the 2019 federal elections will perhaps be the most divisive, negative and nasty, media reports said.
Trudeau made the comment while speaking at a Liberal fundraiser in northwestern Toronto. "We are now looking at perhaps what will be the most divisive and negative and nasty political campaign in Canada's history," he has been quoted by CTV News.
However, Trudeau said his political outfit, the Liberal Party, will not indulge into such mudslinging.
The Prime Minister has been further quoted by the same media outlet as saying, "I can tell you, we will do the same thing we did in 2015: No personal attacks, strong differentiation on issues of policy. I will not engage in personal attacks and none of our team will either."
Trudeau said he took the lesson from 2015 elections when his party moved from third place to defeat the Conservatives. He said his 2015 campaign proved that it is better to treat voters as rational and intelligent citizens than as people who gets convinced by the politics of fear.
"A positive, compelling message that brings people together, that refuses the politics of personal attacks, that refuses the politics of division of scare tactics -- whether its snitch lines or hijab attacks -- that kind of approach that Stephen Harper tried does not work," he has been quoted by CTV News.
"We proved that the politics of negativity and attack don't work."
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