If she isn’t there already, Mary Walsh enters the quotation books:
He may be a senior federal cabinet minister, but Peter MacKay, who was booed at the East Coast Music Awards gala Sunday in Halifax, says he’s also human.
During his speech at the Metro Centre, MacKay, the minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, said he was pleased to be funding the event “here in Toronto,” then tried to recover quickly with Ottawa.
He got Halifax correct on the third try, but by that time he was almost drowned out by the crowd’s laughter and boos.
When comedian Mary Walsh later took to the stage, she referred to the federal Conservatives as the “arse-lickers of Satan, who can’t even remember what town they’re in.”
You just know that somewhere, some focus group moderator is testing ads with the tagline “The Conservatives: arse-lickers of Satan. A message from the Liberal Party of Canada.”
