Justin Trudeau Is Deply Sorry for Wearing Brownface Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized on Wednesday after the publication of a photo in which he appeared in a brown-faced costume at a party about twenty years ago and said he was disappointed. The photo was taken in 2001, while he was attending the annual dinner of the school where he was teaching, which has the theme of “Arabian Nights”, in Vancouver. He was 29 at the time. “I should have known better, but I shouldn’t have done it,” Trudeau told reporters on a plane carrying the Canadian leader and the media during the fall campaign. “I’m really sorry… I’m disappointed and very angry.”