The Conservative party confirmed late Friday afternoon it has dropped Payette as a candidate – just the latest in a slew of candidates shed by the Liberals and Conservatives this week over contentious comments ahead of Monday’s nomination deadline.
The Conservative party confirmed late Friday afternoon it has dropped Payette as a candidate – just the latest in a slew of candidates shed by the Liberals and Conservatives this week over contentious comments ahead of Monday’s nomination deadline.
These guys are fucking psychos:
*Mr. Payette left a series of comments on Provost’s Facebook page in French beginning Thursday night and into Friday, often taunting her to participate in a live debate with him.
In one post, he wrote that he would look her “straight in the eye” as he tears up Bill C-21, the gun control law passed under former prime minister Justin Trudeau, in Parliament under a Conservative majority.
He said he would then use the bill as toilet paper every time he uses the bathroom in Parliament.
“It will be uncomfortable but I will do it to bring justice to all the country’s sport shooters,” he wrote in French.
Ms. Provost had survived the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique massacre, when a gunman brimming with hate for feminists killed 14 women and injured as many others, later becoming a prominent Canadian gun-control advocate and now a star Liberal candidate.*