It was not the kind of publicity P.E.I. had been hoping for when a prime minister was visiting. | cbc_archives
CBC ArchivesThe National reports on the day a protester pushed a pie in the prime minister's face.Prime Minister Jean Chrétien wasn't laughing when a protester put a pie in his face and neither were the RCMP.
Chrétien was whisked away by security. When he reappeared with the pie washed off his face, he did not initially want to talk about what happened. "Next time it may not be a pie," said Myron Thompson, then an opposition critic for the Canadian Alliance, when speaking with CBC in Airdrie, Alta."It's hard to imagine this happening to Bill Clinton," MacKay said, according to a report on the pie incident from the Toronto Star.Following the incident, an RCMP spokesperson acknowledged to reporters "it shouldn't have happened.
Locally, Prince Edward Islanders weren't happy to see the province getting the wrong kind of publicity.
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