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West-end legislator Jack MacLaren is expected to attend a fundraiser friends are organizing for him to make him feel better after his party leader sent him home for disgracing the Progressive Conservative party.
MacLaren, the MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills, first got in trouble with Tory leader Patrick Brown after he tried to humiliate Liberal MP Karen McCrimmon by telling dirty jokes about her and her husband in front of her and 350 attendees at the Carp Fair Men’s Night cancer fundraiser. Then he was caught attributing praise of his own constituency work to made-up constituents. Then the Citizen reported on recordings of MacLaren also telling dirty jokes at last year’s Carp Fair Men’s Night.
Then Tory leader Patrick Brown stripped him of his role as natural resources critic and told him not to return to Queen’s Park until he’d passed sensitivity training and taken “appropriate corrective action.” Brown can’t keep an elected MPP from the legislature but he does have a lot of power over whether MacLaren gets to stay with the Progressive Conservatives.
On May 28, MacLaren will have a dinner at Kanata’s Intercultural Dialogue Institute, down the street from his constituency office on Michael Cowpland Drive. It’s called the “Sticks and Stones Evening” or, depending where you look on the poster, “Make it Right Night.”
A poster for a May 28 fundraiser on behalf of Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren.
Organized by Shirley Dolan, the president of the Carleton Landowners’ Association and the chief financial officer for both of MacLaren’s election campaigns, the $50-a-head fundraiser (proceeds to a charity of MacLaren’s choice) is “to recognize and acknowledge all that Jack has done to help people across the province, while often standing alone for our concerns.”
The institute’s banquet hall seats 250. There’ll be dinner, dessert, and a magic show by Eric Leclerc, two-time winner of a Canadian magicians’ championship, who bills his act as “magic for your brain, laughter for your soul.”
A screenshot from magician Eric Leclerc’s website. Leclerc is to perform at a fundraiser in MPP Jack MacLaren’s name on May 28.
“You may or may not know that Jack MacLaren, MPP has taken quite a beating in the press lately for his off-colour joke and his website,” an email from Dolan inviting people to the event says. “He has apologized and most of you know that it was in the context of an ‘all men’s fundraising dinner’ in Carp where off-colour jokes are the norm. The newspapers who wouldn’t give him the time of day for any ‘good deeds’ were all over him and it went on for close to a month.”
(The first story was exactly one month ago, on April 6. But the coverage only lasted for two weeks. And in recent months, MacLaren actually appeared in the Citizen numerous times, for a variety of different reasons. There was a story about him taking taking up the complaint of a constituent treated ridiculously by the transportation ministry, a piece on the smart politics of his visit to India with Brown and other Tory MPPs, and a story on his experience as a party outreach ambassador who’d marched in Toronto’s gay-pride parade.)
“Many of us would like to recognize and acknowledge all that Jack has done to help people across the province, while often standing alone for our concerns,” the email goes on. “Despite that, he has continued to try and bring awareness to the problems that rural and urban residents are experiencing from various levels of our government.”
The “night of support” for MacLaren is to reassure him that he’s beloved by his community, which has elected him to the legislature twice by 10,000-vote margins.
Dolan didn’t want to talk at any length about the plan but confirmed it’s real and that MacLaren “probably will” be there. She believes the media, and the Citizen in particular, “have been unfair to Jack.”
Brown, the Tory leader, was in Ottawa Friday for a tour of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. He studied the poster.
“There may be some supporters who feel he’s been wrong-done-by. I have a different perspective, that his conduct was inappropriate,” he said. “Frankly, I think we’ve gone further than any other of the political parties in showing denunciation of that conduct and discipline.”
The sensitivity training Brown demanded is key, he said. “I have told Mr. MacLaren that before he can have a conversation about coming back, that needs to be complete, because we have no tolerance for that kind of thing.”
Premier Kathleen Wynne has recently said that she’s dealt with two allegations of sexual harassment against Liberal MPPs. The fact Wynne won’t say who they are or what discipline they’ve faced is hypocritical on her part, Brown said, and likely because any measures she’s taken are inadequate.
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MacLaren, the MPP for Carleton-Mississippi Mills, first got in trouble with Tory leader Patrick Brown after he tried to humiliate Liberal MP Karen McCrimmon by telling dirty jokes about her and her husband in front of her and 350 attendees at the Carp Fair Men’s Night cancer fundraiser. Then he was caught attributing praise of his own constituency work to made-up constituents. Then the Citizen reported on recordings of MacLaren also telling dirty jokes at last year’s Carp Fair Men’s Night.
Then Tory leader Patrick Brown stripped him of his role as natural resources critic and told him not to return to Queen’s Park until he’d passed sensitivity training and taken “appropriate corrective action.” Brown can’t keep an elected MPP from the legislature but he does have a lot of power over whether MacLaren gets to stay with the Progressive Conservatives.
On May 28, MacLaren will have a dinner at Kanata’s Intercultural Dialogue Institute, down the street from his constituency office on Michael Cowpland Drive. It’s called the “Sticks and Stones Evening” or, depending where you look on the poster, “Make it Right Night.”
A poster for a May 28 fundraiser on behalf of Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren.
Organized by Shirley Dolan, the president of the Carleton Landowners’ Association and the chief financial officer for both of MacLaren’s election campaigns, the $50-a-head fundraiser (proceeds to a charity of MacLaren’s choice) is “to recognize and acknowledge all that Jack has done to help people across the province, while often standing alone for our concerns.”
The institute’s banquet hall seats 250. There’ll be dinner, dessert, and a magic show by Eric Leclerc, two-time winner of a Canadian magicians’ championship, who bills his act as “magic for your brain, laughter for your soul.”
A screenshot from magician Eric Leclerc’s website. Leclerc is to perform at a fundraiser in MPP Jack MacLaren’s name on May 28.
“You may or may not know that Jack MacLaren, MPP has taken quite a beating in the press lately for his off-colour joke and his website,” an email from Dolan inviting people to the event says. “He has apologized and most of you know that it was in the context of an ‘all men’s fundraising dinner’ in Carp where off-colour jokes are the norm. The newspapers who wouldn’t give him the time of day for any ‘good deeds’ were all over him and it went on for close to a month.”
(The first story was exactly one month ago, on April 6. But the coverage only lasted for two weeks. And in recent months, MacLaren actually appeared in the Citizen numerous times, for a variety of different reasons. There was a story about him taking taking up the complaint of a constituent treated ridiculously by the transportation ministry, a piece on the smart politics of his visit to India with Brown and other Tory MPPs, and a story on his experience as a party outreach ambassador who’d marched in Toronto’s gay-pride parade.)
“Many of us would like to recognize and acknowledge all that Jack has done to help people across the province, while often standing alone for our concerns,” the email goes on. “Despite that, he has continued to try and bring awareness to the problems that rural and urban residents are experiencing from various levels of our government.”
The “night of support” for MacLaren is to reassure him that he’s beloved by his community, which has elected him to the legislature twice by 10,000-vote margins.
Dolan didn’t want to talk at any length about the plan but confirmed it’s real and that MacLaren “probably will” be there. She believes the media, and the Citizen in particular, “have been unfair to Jack.”
Brown, the Tory leader, was in Ottawa Friday for a tour of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. He studied the poster.
“There may be some supporters who feel he’s been wrong-done-by. I have a different perspective, that his conduct was inappropriate,” he said. “Frankly, I think we’ve gone further than any other of the political parties in showing denunciation of that conduct and discipline.”
The sensitivity training Brown demanded is key, he said. “I have told Mr. MacLaren that before he can have a conversation about coming back, that needs to be complete, because we have no tolerance for that kind of thing.”
Premier Kathleen Wynne has recently said that she’s dealt with two allegations of sexual harassment against Liberal MPPs. The fact Wynne won’t say who they are or what discipline they’ve faced is hypocritical on her part, Brown said, and likely because any measures she’s taken are inadequate.
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