Cool is Hot. Some White Men Can Dance.
Justin Trudeau stopped by the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival BBQ One Year Later, One Liberal Learns To Dance To A Soca Beat It is carnival time in the city of Toronto. Soca Music. Mas. Calypso. A million people in the hot and hot streets. More media than at the G20. For Federal Liberals, the world famous Scotiabank Toronto Caribbean Carnival, has always had a huge publicity attraction. It is sometimes their PR Waterloo. And while Martha Reeves does say that summer is here and the time is right for dancing in the street, it doesn't mean that a politician just has to show up to be instantly seen as being one with the people. It was a year ago, that Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, rented a bus and rolled into town for what was then called Scotiabank Caribana. He had a steel pan orchestra and champion calypso singer, Macomere Fifi in tow. They barnstormed the festival, entertaining the crowds with long speeches, soca and calypso music and spectacularly bad dancing.