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Conservative party drops Quebec candidate who said massacre survivor was playing ‘victim game’ (www.theglobeandmail.com)

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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.

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[–] Dwayne_Elizondo_Mountain_Dew_Camacho 13 points 2 weeks ago

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.*