Trudeau’s museum sketch boosts party donations
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Justin Trudeau. Liberal leader. Teacher. Ski instructor. Now artist?
Trudeau has been showing off his mettle with pen and paper, offering postcard prints of a sketch he did of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg to thousands of Liberal donors if the party’s monthly tally hit $350,000 by the end of March 30.
Mission accomplished.
As of 8 a.m. Monday, they were still about $53,000 short of the goal, but hit the mark by early afternoon.
Every March donor to the party will now get a copy of the postcard, which Trudeau’s spokeswoman said he drew after a recent visit to the museum.
“He chose the Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg for this sketch as it is a great symbol of ‘Canadian liberty’ to him,” said Kate Purchase. “He recently visited the museum and was inspired by his visit.”
The ink drawing in mostly blue and grey depicts the building with no landscape.
The fundraiser is part of a three-pronged campaign called “3 Challenges for Change.” It included coming up with slogans for a Liberal T-shirt, signing up new volunteers and generating donations. The party aimed to raise $500,000 in March.
“This is the first time Mr. Trudeau has sketched a piece of art for Liberal fundraising efforts,” Purchase said. “While he’s not formally trained, he does find time to draw often, usually sketches of engineering projects — bridges, buildings and other pieces of infrastructure.”
Federal parties are in high gear raising money ahead of the upcoming campaign.
Since corporate and union donations were banned and annual limits were placed on individual donors, only the Conservatives have had great fundraising success. The Liberals and NDP struggled to figure out how to raise a lot of money under the new rules.
Both have improved, however, and while the Conservatives still lead by several million dollars each year, the other parties have closed the gap.
mia.rabson@freepress.mb.ca