Canadian Pie

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Leslie

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Alberta Premier Ralph Klein got a pie square in the face Monday during his annual Stampede breakfast.
Klein had just started to address the crowd and was commenting on what a great job Agriculture Minister Shirley McClellan was doing with the mad cow crisis when a man, who appeared to be in his 20s, hit Klein hard with a banana cream pie.
As several breakfast-goers screamed, the man was tackled by provincial security officers as he tried to get away and was taken into police custody.
The Conservative premier who is more used to being accepted by the public because of his Every Man image, did not look shaken, although he did appear somewhat irritated. He then smiled as he tried to wipe away the pie remnants with his fingers before being handed a towel.
"It tastes not bad," he said.
He did not finish addressing the crowd before going inside McDougall Centre, which houses southern Alberta's government offices, to take a shower.
Klein emerged later to talk to reporters, although he did not finish the breakfast.
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A partial list of pie-throwing and similar incidents involving public figures in Canada:
July 7, 2003: Alberta Premier Ralph Klein hit in head with banana cream pie at Calgary Stampede breakfast. Three people, including pie thrower, questioned by police.
April 12, 2003: Quebec Liberal Leader Jean Charest pied during a campaign event two days before provincial election in which he is elected premier. Deflects second pie, which spatters on his wife. No arrests made.
Oct. 5, 2000: Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day splattered with chocolate milk only moments before announcing party's platform during federal election campaign. University student Julian Ichim charged with assault. Received suspended sentence.
Aug. 16, 2000: Prime Minister Jean Chretien in Charlottetown hit by P.E.I. Pie Brigade. Evan Wade Brown convicted of assault and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
May 7, 1999: Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Stephane Dion hit with pie. Patrick Robert and Benoit Foisy charged with assault. Received suspended sentences.
Nov. 10, 1998: Former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau hit with pie. Bruno Caron charged with assault. Received conditional discharge.
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I shouldn't but *sputters*

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HA!
 
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*only has coconut cream in the freezer...will remember that for next grocery day*
 
Squiggy said:
coconut cream is good...specially if its at your house... :hug:
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alas, I think I'll be eating that tonight...all of it :licklips:

I'll make sure I keep the ingredients for a homemade banana one for the next Squiggy invasion :D
 
you did read the thread though, right? you do know what we do with banana cream pies up here? *evilgrin*
 
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Despite previous pastry assaults across the country, the premier says this is no reflection on politicians.
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forgot the source...it's a story on how because of the pie they're rethinking security *giggles*

Alberta Premier Ralph Klein says he has no intention of hiding behind increased security after he was hit with a pie at his annual Stampede breakfast. "Our security got him very quickly, but you're never completely safe," Klein said Monday after a young man slammed a banana cream pie into his face. He wants police to lay charges. "It's a pie today, it could be something else tomorrow and I'm not going to let this go without prosecution."
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teeheehee

I know it's probably more serious than I'm taking it but *snicker* :rofl3:

this btw is the guy who was convicted of drinking and driving recently in Hawaii :retard:
 
oops gotta retract that, it was the OTHER drunken premier who did that...Ralph Klein only goes around his own province drunker'n'hell
Were it not for the police ID clipboard, the mug shots of B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell that ran in every Canadian newspaper last weekend could have been typical vacation photos. There he stood -- tanned, grinning like a superannuated frat boy on spring break, not a care in the world.

Obviously his martini haze had yet to wear off; when it did, Campbell would have had to have faced the sober realization that that click-click-click-click noise heard in that Hawaii police station was not a familiar political photo op.

Yet the Premier was back in pol mode by Sunday's press conference at which he admitted that "although I am not a heavy drinker, I have been a social drinker," before enumerating the three martinis and God knows how much wine he imbibed before getting behind the wheel of his rental car.

In what has become a familiar refrain in Canadian politics of late, Campbell says he will not drink again. Last year, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein, who did admit to a alcohol problem, vowed to stop drinking after causing a scene at a homeless shelter in Edmonton. John McCallum, Minister of National Defence, also swore off drink after being barred from boarding an Air Canada flight last November because he was inebriated. McCallum claimed that he didn't have a "drinking problem," but rather stopped drinking for "health" reasons -- presumably the "health" of his career. But who was he kidding? If an overworked airline clerk notices that you're too drunk to sit on a plane, you have a problem.
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Canadians everywhere are proud
 
Leslie said:
the mug shots of B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell that ran in every Canadian newspaper last weekend could have been typical vacation photos. There he stood -- tanned, grinning like a superannuated frat boy on spring break, not a care in the world.[/url]
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Proud to be a British Columbian :drink2:
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