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West-end MPP Jack MacLaren made an “unequivocally inappropriate joke” about his member of Parliament at a Carp Fair event, Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown said Wednesday morning.
Via spokeswoman Tamara Macgregor, Brown condemned dirty lines MacLaren tried out on a shocked audience at the Carp Agricultural Hall, in front of Kanata-Carleton MP Karen McCrimmon.
“There is no room for misogynist comments in our caucus and party,” Brown said. “The member acknowledges this and has apologized.”
Multiple politicians and Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray were present when MacLaren cracked jokes about McCrimmon’s sex life with her husband.
McCrimmon is a Liberal. MacLaren is a Tory. An early supporter of Brown’s outsider run to lead the Progressive Conservatives, MacLaren is also the leader of the Eastern Ontario Tory MPPs, the critic for natural resources, and an ambassador for the party to ethnic groups that include Ontario’s Turks and Tamils.
McCrimmon, the Liberal member of Parliament for Kanata-Carleton, was one of the few women sitting at the Carp Fair “Men’s Night,” an annual fundraiser in which men from the west end gather to have dinner served by women involved with the fair and hear speeches. There’s a “Ladies’ Night” coming up when the roles are reversed. This night at the end of March, Murray, who’s living with advanced colon cancer that might have been curable if he hadn’t blown off routine colonoscopies, talked to a big crowd of rural guys about how important it is to get their health checked even if it’s unpleasant.
MacLaren himself didn’t immediately respond to an interview request Wednesday morning, after the Toronto Star reported on the incident. Neither did McCrimmon. According to the Star, MacLaren called her up to the stage at the March 24 event and put her and her husband’s names into a joke full of double-entendres that conflate church attendance and sex.
MacLaren’s caucusmate Lisa MacLeod sympathized with McCrimmon publicly. “I’m very sorry you had to endure that,” she tweeted, and McCrimmon thanked her.
When the hall went quiet, Eli El-Chantiry knew something was up.
The councillor for West-Carleton March was kibbitzing with Murray, he said, because MacLaren was at the microphone. The two politicians maintain a firm mutual antipathy and El-Chantiry didn’t want to listen to him.
“We were talking and, you know, you notice when a room with 350 people in it is going quiet. There was this sound,” El-Chantiry said Wednesday, imitating a gasp.
He didn’t hear everything MacLaren said, he insists, but what he did hear was plenty.
“It was something about being between her legs,” El-Chantiry said.
When MacLaren concluded, he sat down to frozen silence, El-Chantiry said.
Murray told the Citizen Wednesday morning that he didn’t hear MacLaren’s lines, either, but it was because he was thinking about his own turn at the microphone.
“They were teasing I think. That is all I remember. There were a variety of speakers. There were a couple of comments that were probably in jest more than anything,” he said. “I was just worried about making a speech afterward, so I was focused on that.”
More to come.
With files from Elizabeth Payne.
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Via spokeswoman Tamara Macgregor, Brown condemned dirty lines MacLaren tried out on a shocked audience at the Carp Agricultural Hall, in front of Kanata-Carleton MP Karen McCrimmon.
“There is no room for misogynist comments in our caucus and party,” Brown said. “The member acknowledges this and has apologized.”
Multiple politicians and Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray were present when MacLaren cracked jokes about McCrimmon’s sex life with her husband.
McCrimmon is a Liberal. MacLaren is a Tory. An early supporter of Brown’s outsider run to lead the Progressive Conservatives, MacLaren is also the leader of the Eastern Ontario Tory MPPs, the critic for natural resources, and an ambassador for the party to ethnic groups that include Ontario’s Turks and Tamils.
McCrimmon, the Liberal member of Parliament for Kanata-Carleton, was one of the few women sitting at the Carp Fair “Men’s Night,” an annual fundraiser in which men from the west end gather to have dinner served by women involved with the fair and hear speeches. There’s a “Ladies’ Night” coming up when the roles are reversed. This night at the end of March, Murray, who’s living with advanced colon cancer that might have been curable if he hadn’t blown off routine colonoscopies, talked to a big crowd of rural guys about how important it is to get their health checked even if it’s unpleasant.
MacLaren himself didn’t immediately respond to an interview request Wednesday morning, after the Toronto Star reported on the incident. Neither did McCrimmon. According to the Star, MacLaren called her up to the stage at the March 24 event and put her and her husband’s names into a joke full of double-entendres that conflate church attendance and sex.
MacLaren’s caucusmate Lisa MacLeod sympathized with McCrimmon publicly. “I’m very sorry you had to endure that,” she tweeted, and McCrimmon thanked her.
When the hall went quiet, Eli El-Chantiry knew something was up.
The councillor for West-Carleton March was kibbitzing with Murray, he said, because MacLaren was at the microphone. The two politicians maintain a firm mutual antipathy and El-Chantiry didn’t want to listen to him.
“We were talking and, you know, you notice when a room with 350 people in it is going quiet. There was this sound,” El-Chantiry said Wednesday, imitating a gasp.
He didn’t hear everything MacLaren said, he insists, but what he did hear was plenty.
“It was something about being between her legs,” El-Chantiry said.
When MacLaren concluded, he sat down to frozen silence, El-Chantiry said.
Murray told the Citizen Wednesday morning that he didn’t hear MacLaren’s lines, either, but it was because he was thinking about his own turn at the microphone.
“They were teasing I think. That is all I remember. There were a variety of speakers. There were a couple of comments that were probably in jest more than anything,” he said. “I was just worried about making a speech afterward, so I was focused on that.”
More to come.
With files from Elizabeth Payne.
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