Jagmeet Singh‘s turban.On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee, which included Singh, gathered to hear testimony from Loblaws CEO Galen Weston about soaring food inflation and insecurity in Canada.Singh, alongside the committee, pressed Weston for answers about whether he and other top grocery executives from Metro and Empire Co., which runs the chains Sobeys, Safeway and FreshCo, are price gouging.
Read more: ‘Profits are profits’: As food prices soar, Liberal MP says Canada needs more competition In turn, Lilley took to Twitter to press Singh, who is Sikh, about the colour of his yellow turban.Jagmeet looks like he wore his No Name turban today just to grill Galen Weston at committee.I know he changes the colours for special days or occaision but didn't expect to see No Name yellow today.
Is it on purpose or a coincidence? pic.twitter.com/rOmModWgkc— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) March 8, 2023Immediately after posting, there were calls for Lilley to remove the tweet, which as of this writing, has been viewed 2.7 million times.Sarah Hoffman, deputy leader of the NDP, replied to Lilley and called his tweet “racist.”“Is that on purpose or a coincidence?” she wrote, mocking Lilley’s original post.This sure sounds racist.
Is that on purpose or a coincidence?— Sarah Hoffman (@shoffmanAB) March 9, 2023Liberal MP and Minister of International Development Harjit Sajjan responded to Lilley with a photo of himself wearing a black turban.“Check out my No Name turban,” Sajjan wrote.Check out my No Name turban.