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Canadian Fisheries Minister Assaulted With A Tofu Pie!

I saw this headline on one of those news tickers on the TTC. It read something like, “Fisheries minister takes a pie to the face in Burlington. Women in custody. No injuries.”. That was so strange that I had to look it up when I got home, sure enough I found the video on CBC News.

Police charged a 37-year-old woman with assault after she hit Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea in the face with a pie Monday at an event in Burlington, Ont.

Shea was delivering a speech at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters to open the Aquatic Life Research Facility when Emily McCoy of New York City stood up in the front row and planted the white cream pie squarely in Shea’s face.

“Shame on you, Gail Shea,” McKoy said before making a reference to the “bloody seal hunt.”

The pie aimed at Shea was apparently made of tofu, though the fisheries minister told the Hamilton Spectator that it “tasted like shaving cream.”

Shea did not require medical attention and returned to the podium after wiping the pie from her face.

“We’re certainly sorry for that delay, but unfortunately these types of incidents come with the type of business that I’m in,” she said.

“But back to the business at hand,” she said.

via CBC News

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January 25, 2010 by Jonathon Marshall

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