Posted on 10/20/2006 7:02:18 AM PDT by GMMAC
Stronach remark dogs MacKay
cnews.canoe.ca
October 20, 2006
By ALEXANDER PANETTA
OTTAWA (CP) - Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay referred to Liberal MP Belinda Stronach - his ex-girlfriend - as a dog Thursday in the House of Commons, the Liberals say.
MacKay denies saying any such thing.
The purported slur prompted Toronto-area Liberal Mark Holland to lodge a complaint with the Commons Speaker, and other Liberals expressed disgust at the alleged remark.
Holland says the foreign minister made the slur while exchanging jeers with the Liberals during a debate on the environment.
While the government was being peppered with questions about the new Clean Air Plan, Holland says a Liberal jokingly asked MacKay about the impact of pollution on humans and animals: "What about your dog?"
According to Holland, MacKay motioned toward Stronach's vacant seat and replied: "You already have her."
MacKay staged a well-publicized photo op with a dog on his family's Nova Scotia farm when he and Stronach broke up after her stunning defection to the Liberal party in 2005.
In Halifax on Thursday night for a speech to a Tory fund-raiser, MacKay denied saying anything derogatory about Stronach and suggested that his critics consult Hansard.
"I made no dog comment," MacKay told reporters, and blamed the fuss on Liberal partisan politics.
"It's what it's all about. It's a distraction away from their own inadequacies."
Earlier, Holland told reporters outside the Commons: "It's completely unacceptable to call a woman a dog and to point over to her is completely disgusting.
"And he owes Belinda an apology, he owes the House an apology, he owes women an apology."
MacKay spokesman Dan Dugas suggested the slur might never have happened, although he did not explicitly deny it.
"I've checked the official record of House proceedings and there is no such comment," he said.
However, parliamentary debate transcripts routinely miss comments made during heckling.
Stronach was meeting with child-poverty groups in Montreal and was not in the House at the time, Liberal officials said. She learned about the alleged incident during her drive back to Ottawa, when she received a number of phone calls from colleagues.
She issued a brief statement late Thursday: "I am really disappointed that Peter MacKay would say something like that."
One Liberal close to Stronach said she has tried several times to speak with MacKay since their falling out in May 2005, to no avail.
"He'll walk into the elevator and she'll say, 'Hello Peter,' and he'll barely grunt back at her," he said. It wouldn't be the first time that the foreign minister compared his ex-girlfriend, a former Liberal human resources minister, to a canine.
The day after Stronach's defection, he told reporters he planned to go home and walk his dog.
"Dogs are loyal," he added at the time.
Holland was adamant when pressed to explain what he saw and heard Thursday.
"It was very direct. You know the question was, 'Peter, what about your dog?' Pointing directly at Belinda's seat and saying 'You already have her,' " Holland said.
"He certainly owes her an apology and women an apology."
Liberal MP David McGuinty said the remark was loud and unmistakable.
"At least 10 members of our caucus heard it loud and clear and it would be very very difficult for the minister of foreign affairs to deny what he said," McGuinty said.
good one..facts are BS doesn't bark very well when her mouth is full of bubbalicious and Mckay is not bilingual and so he doesn't understand barking...no story here laddies...eh
Look out MacKay.You MUST apologize, lick the hands of the pu$$y whipping feminonazis!.....Or Else ????
The fact is that Stronach is a selfish , self-centered prig, twice divorced, a home wrecker ( DOMI) who thinks that she can be the equivalent of Don Juan in the feminist version, without being responsible for it!
Sorry Belinda, you walk the walk, talk the talk, and now voters must decide whether you are trustworthy enough to represent them. In the next election, the biatch factor will do you in. AND we will make sure of it.
DOG? My goodness, you are the quintessential female rake. And as a public figure, your rakishness will stick to you like crazy glue.
All the femino-nazi posturing will avail you naught!
THe Scandal drivin politics have just begun. You made the mistake of trying to put MacKay on the spot, when it could have been anyone who said it, even a liberal back bencher. Whoever said it was right!
Belinda IS a DOG. A feminonazi no count , two timing disloyal , homewrecking Canine of the Female persuasion that wants a gaggle of pussy whipped rutting males snarfing up her skirts,so that she can feel wanted.
Vote for Belinda?
Not a chance.
Get thee to a nunnery, its your only hope.
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