Despite it being the Thanksgiving weekend, most of the campaigns were in full swing. Andrew Scheer took the day off, but Justin Trudeau was undaunted by the security issue of the previous evening, and went to York to pack Thanksgiving hampers along with the coach of the Toronto Raptors and got his endorsement. During the media availability, Trudeau insisted that the security scare would not change the way he campaigns – even though the whole bulletproof vest was unprecedented in Canadian politics. Trudeau then went to Newmarket where the crowds were so thick they closed the streets, and ended the day in Richmond Hill.

Jagmeet Singh was in Surrey, BC, where he held a rally and told the crowd that strategic voting prevents people from dreaming big. (Counterpoint: Dreaming big is all well and good but implementation matters). Singh also said he’d be willing to enter into a coalition with the Liberals in order to stop the Conservatives, which seems premature at this point in the game.

Other election stories:

• Indigenous engagement in this election continues to be an open question.
• Here’s a profile of Adam van Koeverden’s campaign against Lisa Raitt in Milton.
• The Star has a profile of Scheer, while The Canadian Press looks at the calculated emergence of “Angry Andrew” in the debates to make him more serious.
• Here’s an examination of the Conservative pitch to put a “reverse onus” on foreign fighters, and why it’s unconstitutional and an ineffective deterrent.
• Here’s a look at Singh and the question of Canada’s structural racism, and why he only goes so far in discussing it.

Good reads:

• Three former Syrian refugees have just voted for the first time in advanced polls.
• Susan Delacourt charts some of the changes between the current election and that of 2015, even before the bulletproof vest made its appearance.

Odds and ends:

My latest election recap video for Loonie Politics can be found here.

Also, I was late in putting my last episode into wide release, so here it is:

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