Imagine if the genocide of Indigenous nations, broken treaties, boil-water advisories, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, police brutality, torture complicity, security certificates, no-fly lists and indefinite detention were treated equally as scandalous as Trudeau in blackface.

Desmond Cole writes that in the rare moments we are forced to see the horrors of our jails, as in the death of Soleiman Faqiri, we find it hard to pretend their purpose is safety or self-reflection or rehabilitation.

If Torontonians want to protect Toronto's 2018 election, we have to do it ourselves.