https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/senator-apologizes-for-mangled-remarks-about-ottawa-residents-frustrated-by-convoy-protest-1.5790090

Senator apologizes for 'mangled remarks' about Ottawa residents
frustrated by convoy protest

Senator Michael L. MacDonald arrives ahead of the screening of
"Sharkwater Extinction" during the Toronto International Film Festival
in Toronto, on Friday, September 7, 2018. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Christopher Katsarov.

Ted Raymond
CTV News Ottawa Digital Multi-Skilled Journalist
 Published Monday, February 21, 2022 3:21PM EST

WARNING: This story contains disturbing language.

A Conservative senator from Nova Scotia has apologized in the Senate
for comments he made about the reaction of Ottawa residents to the
"Freedom Convoy" demonstration that had occupied the city's downtown
for three weeks.

Sen. Michael MacDonald was captured on video expressing support for
the protesters, and disparaging the reaction of residents opposed to
the noise, idling, and other issues that came with the occupation.
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    Conservative senator MacDonald derides Ottawa residents in video

"Oh, I hear this all the time – ‘They’re in our city’ – It’s
everybody’s f------ city," MacDonald is heard saying. "This is the
capital of the country. It’s not your g------ city just because you
have a six-figure salary and you work 20 hours a week."

When reached by CTV News Sunday night, MacDonald said he was
"mortified" and said he would apologize. MacDonald explained that the
video was recorded Wednesday night when he was returning from dinner
and had been drinking. He said he had asked the person with the camera
not to record.

Standing in the Senate on Monday, MacDonald apologized to the
residents of Ottawa for his remarks.

"I left the impression that I agreed with trucks being illegally
parked in the downtown and made some mangled remarks about the
sentiments of people in Ottawa regarding the protest," he said. "So, I
first want to apologize to the people of Ottawa for my clumsy
language. It was not my intention to disparage anyone."

During the recorded conversation, MacDonald said he didn't mind
protesters leaving Windsor or other border crossings, but when it
comes to Ottawa, "I don't want them to leave," he whispered.

In the Senate, he explained that he only supported the push to remove
COVID-19 public health measures.

"Like so many Canadians, I am mentally exhausted after two years of
lockdowns and a third year facing more of the same. It was the demand
to open this country back up that I support," he said.

MacDonald acknowledged the frustration Ottawa residents felt because
of the three-week long protest and occupation, but blamed the
municipal government for allowing it to happen.

"When I arrived for work over three weeks ago and saw the trucks all
over Wellington Street, I couldn't believe that this was allowed to
occur," he said. "Ottawa has a professional, well-trained, modern
police force, which, if properly directed, is more than capable of
preventing a situation like this from developing. This failure is the
responsibility of city hall."

MacDonald acknowledged his privilege in being able to retain a
paycheque throughout the pandemic and said if "this unfortunate
episode" brings attention to some of the issues facing Canadians who
have been unable to work or go to school because of public health
mandates, "then my present embarrassment will have accomplished
something positive."

MacDonald also apologized in the Senate to his wife, whom he called "a
Karen" in the recording, saying she is "the salt of the Earth and the
rock of my family."

A “Karen” is a derisive term often used online to describe someone who
complains about vaccination and COVID-19 mask mandates. In fact, Sen.
MacDonald’s wife is named Marilyn, according to his Senate biography.

Saying he loves Ottawa, MacDonald told his colleagues he is contrite.

"I'm sorry for those I've disappointed," he said. "I expect better
from me and I will do better going forward."


Michael L. MacDonald
@SenMacDonald
To my family, friends, colleagues and people of Ottawa:

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3:45 PM · Feb 21, 2022


 https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/conservative-senator-macdonald-derides-ottawa-residents-in-video-1.5789301

Conservative senator MacDonald derides Ottawa residents in video

 Glen McGregor
CTV National News Senior Political Correspondent
 glen.mcgregor@bellmedia.ca

Published Feb. 20, 2022 9:35 p.m. AST

WARNING: This story contains disturbing language.

A Conservative senator from Nova Scotia was seen on a video deriding
the response of people who live in Ottawa to recent protests, saying
he’s sick of their entitlement and “six-figure salaries and 20-hour
work weeks.”

In the video recorded near Parliament Hill, Sen. Michael MacDonald
expressed support for the protesters who occupied Ottawa for more than
three weeks.

“It’s a cross-section of Canadians who have said we have had enough of
the bullying, and the duplicity and the lies,” he said.

Reached Sunday night, MacDonald said the video was recorded Wednesday
night when he was returning from dinner and had been drinking. He said
he had asked the person with the camera not to record.

“I’m mortified,” he told CTV News.

He said he will issue an apology in the Senate on Monday.

“I’m going to go up and take my medicine," he said. "I have always
been a responsible senator. I’ve let a lot of people down.”

In the video, MacDonald said he wanted protesters to leave Windsor,
Ont., and other places they are interfering with transportation, "but
in Ottawa, I don’t want them to leave,” he added.

He mocked the response of Ottawa residents to the protests, saying:
“Oh, I hear this all the time – ‘They’re in our city’ – It’s
everybody’s f------ city.”

“This is the capital of the country. It’s not your g------ city just
because you have a six-figure salary and you work 20 hours a week,” he
says.

Among those in Ottawa earning six-figure salaries are senators, like
MacDonald, who are paid a base salary of $160,000 annually and can
serve until age 75.

The video appeared to be recorded by someone sympathetic to the protests.

MacDonald thanked the person recording for having the “courage and
decency” to come to Ottawa.

MacDonald also described his own wife as “a Karen,” because she wanted
the protesters to leave.

A “Karen” is a derisive term often used online to describe someone who
complains about vaccination and COVID-19 mask mandates. In fact, Sen.
MacDonald’s wife is named Marilyn, according to his Senate biography.

“I’m so sick of the entitlement of this country and this f------
city,” he added, “and their b------- nonsense, calling people bigots
and racists and everything else. This is so unfair.”

In October, MacDonald became the first member of the Conservative
caucus to call for a review of former leader Erin O’Toole’s
leadership.

He will also be voting in the Senate on the Liberal government’s
legislation invoking the Emergencies Act in response to the protest in
Ottawa and elsewhere, should it pass through the House of Commons.

MacDonald spent most of his career working in provincial and federal
politics and served as the vice-president of the Conservative Party of
Canada until he was appointed to the Senate in 2009 on the advice of
then-prime minister Stephen Harper.



https://twitter.com/LindsayHunter1/status/1495453375722315780
Lindsay Hunter
@LindsayHunter1
Wow Conservative Senator Michael MacDonald caught giving a two minute
rant in support of the illegal occupation. “My wife’s a Karen, scared.
‘Oh I just wish they would leave” Admitting his family is scared of
the occupiers and egging them on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_Pd_Hq0CBs


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OTTAWA SENATOR SPEAKS OUT
What Senator Michael L MacDonald REALLY THOUGHT about the Freedom
Convoy Protest in Ottawa - 7 Minute Conversation Recorded LIVE
February 16th, 2022
7 hr ago

Recently, I’ve been reminded of an encounter I had during the Freedom
Convoy protest in Ottawa last winter. It was the night of February
16th, 2022 at the corner of Wellington and Elgin, just in front of the
East Block - Canada's Parliamentary Precinct.

I crossed paths with a very interesting man. He was walking past me in
a hurry. Something made him look towards me. When we made eye contact,
he began a conversation.

This memory was almost lost to me. I had been staying up, late into
the night and sleeping in my truck in negative degree temperatures.
Admittedly, I am a bit ignorant to Parliamentary hierarchy and the
who’s who in government.

I knew I was speaking to somebody important, but I never knew how important.

The man I crossed paths with was Michael L. MacDonald, a sitting
Senator with the Federal Government. He released a statement days
afterwards, apologizing for his remarks. He said he had too much to
drink at dinner that night. You know how the old adage goes,

“a drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts”.

This admission by Senator MacDonald should be submitted into evidence
in the Public Order Emergency Commission.

Here is the transcript of the conversation between us:

    “How ya doin’?”

Good, Yourself?

    “Not bad.”

Right on.

    “Where you in from?”

Pardon?

    “Where are you in from?”

Toronto.

    “Are you?”

Yeah.

    “Good man yourself.”

Right on. Where are you from? Local?

    “Nova Scotia.”

Nova Scotia?

    “Yeah.”

Right on.

    “Yeah.”

Thanks for coming down brother, right on.

    “I’m not coming here, I work here.”

Oh, you work here?

    “I do.”

Oh, right on.

    “I do. I’m a… don’t turn me... don’t put that on. I don’t want to
be recorded, alright?”

Okay.

    “I just want to talk to you as a friend.”

Sure, talk to me brother.

    “Alright, okay then. This is so important, for the country. This
is so important.”

Oh yeah, 100%.

“Now, if people would realize - fuckin’ that you need freedom in this
country anymore? Are we a country anymore? Or are we gonna sit around
like a bunch of fuckin’ androids being told what to do?”

I agree. I agree brother.

    “No, no, It’s fuckin’ not like this. Right? How old are you?”

37

    “I’m 67. Right?”

67? Yeah..

    “I’m just a… I’m so... happy with the people in the city don’t
break the law or nothing.”

Beautiful.

“Right? They have courage and integrity and determination… to come out
and hold the fort, hold their ground. And uh… This country is full of
people with no courage. And it’s full of Karens and silly people and
people with manginas…. and… We’ve criticized them and often people do,
but… People with better judgment have to prevail here.”

Yeah, absolutely.

    ‘People with better judgement have to step forward and say,
“Enough!” Right?’

Mmhmm, mmhmm. 100%

    “Right? What do you do?”

Uh, I’m a streamer. Well, my day-to-day is uh, I’m a plumber.

    “Are you?”

Yes sir. There we go guys.

    “The world needs plumbers brother.”

Yes sir, yeah.

    “There’s too many people going to university and taking useless degrees.”

Mmmhmm.

    ‘And I always say, “We should be… instead of subsidizing people’s
university degrees… let’s produce more pipefitters and plumbers and
electricians and and journeymen and, and carpenters and stationary
engineers. And people that could do things that are useful.”’

Yeah… yeah, 100%

    ‘“Instead of virtue signaling and…” and uh. You won’t know who I
am. You’d never guess who I am.’

I, I do not know.

“I’m a senator. I’m a senator in parliament…”

Oh yeah? Okay.

    “I’m a conservative, so I’m the only conservative senator running
from Nova Scotia. I’m a baby of Canada. My father went to Seaway, he
was 12 to raise his family. He worked hard his whole life for
everything.”

“The shit I see in this place…”

MmmHmm.

    ‘People with six figure salaries telling the news to people.
Talking to worthless business people about the course of this country.
Trying to do the job. Saying, “We’re your, we’re your, we’re your
friends.”’

“Out here, they’re fuckin’ enemies. They’re a bunch of sell outs…”

    “The people here who… I made a lot of different political
persuasion with them. But we have the right to be free in our own
country.”

Yeah, I hope so, yeah.

“And… When I see the government put a fuckin’ fence around the war
memorial, as if to, as if to imply that it’s in danger. I’ve been here
for three weeks. I walk from my office in the East Block to my hotel
room in the Westin. I never felt so safe than I have for the past few
weeks.”

Yeah…

    “I don’t feel, I don’t feel battled or threatened. I feel safe.”

100%

    “Threatened by people who are my friends??”

Yeah…

    “And aren’t bullying me.”

The only thing you got to be worried about here is getting a, a hug
from a stranger.

    “That’s right! That’s right! That’s right…”

It’s just… it’s… it’s beautiful.

    ‘Right? But I’m just... I just can’t get over how, ah, the way
people here are being lied about and misrepresented. I’m sittin’ home.
I said, “Look, I’m, I’m there!” I’m like… I bring all newspapers home
that came from Nova Scotia, all these local journalists, same old
“blah blah blah blah”. Regurgitating what they’re told out of CTV or
CBC or Global.’

Yeah…

    ‘I said, “Well… I’m there everyday! I’ve been here every day for
the last three weeks. Walking through everybody…”’

Nothing but peace.

    “Don’t go tellin’ me there’s a problem…”

Yeah, yeah.

    “I know the difference. I know it cause I’m living it.”

Yeah…

‘And you’re representing these people this way?! If you think this is
only truckers… This is a hell of a lot more than truckers. There’s a
cross section of Canadians that said, “We have had enough of the
bullshit and duplicity and the lies and the, and the social management
and the bullying and the control freaks and everything else…”
alright?’

    *Inaudible*

    ‘The country’s full of Karens. My wife’s a Karen. Scared to death.
“Oh, I just wish they’d leave.”’

‘I said, “I don’t want them to leave.” I said, “I don’t care if they
leave Windsor or in the other places, where they’re shutting down
transportation. But in Ottawa… I don’t want them to leave.”’

Yeah, well everybody’s watching, this is worldwide. Everybody’s watching here.

    ‘And people, and people say, “Oh, uh” I hear this all the time,
“They’re in OUR city!”’

“It’s everybody’s fuckin’ city! This is the capital of the country!
It’s not your God damned city!”

Yeah…

    “Just because you have a six figure salary and you work 20 hours a
week… we haven’t worked a full week in two years!”

Yeah, yeah.

    “Now that’s sickening!”

Yeah.

    “It’s sickening!!”

I hear you brother.

    “Alright? It’s sickening!!”

Thanks my man, I really appreciate talking to ya.

    “Look, look, look. Look - I grew up with nothing. I’m not a better
person than anybody else. I’m not a special person. I grew up. I’m a
baby of Canada. You know how I paid my way through university? I
peeled pulp. And I went to the Grand Banks. Cause my parents had no
money. You know what? You know what I’m owed? Nothing. I’m owed
nothing. This country gave me more than my father had and my
grandfathers, right?”

“And I’m so sick of the entitlement in this country and this fuckin’
city. Everybody around this city with their 6 figure salaries and
their 20 hour weeks. And their bullshit nonsense, calling people
bigots and racists and everything else. This is so unfair to the
country and so unfair to people. And I know it’s unfair cause I’m
here.”

Yeah.

    “I know it’s not true. Right?”

Absolutely.

    “Thanks for having the courage and the decency to come here.”

Thanks brother.

    “Alright? You are not alone.”

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

    “Alright. God bless you.”

God bless you too man.

And I mean that, Mike. God bless you for speaking from the heart in
that moment in time. This conversation should be heard in it’s
entirely by more than just the two of us and a handful of viewers
watching live, unable to hear well over the wind noise. God knows you
meant every word you said to me that night, even though not so
eloquently delivered at times. The sentiments you expressed that night
reflect the opinions of millions of Canadians across the country.

So Mike, my friend; I am sorry. I know the vultures may continue to
drag you for some of the comments you made. However, a lot can be
extrapolated from this video regarding the safety of the Freedom
Convoy protest in Ottawa and regarding the other opinions shared,
which normally go unspoken. I extend my hand to you brother, if you
ever wish to speak to me, officially on the record this time.

Let it be known that a Convoy streamer DID gain audience with a
sitting senator in Ottawa that night on February 16th, 2022.

It is my hope that this submission be entered into evidence in the
Public Order Emergency Commission.

I ask those reading this; please consider sending an email to the
Public Order Emergency Commission below.

https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/share-your-views/

Feel free to download the original livestream here.

Canadians deserve to see and hear what this senator REALLY thought
about the Freedom Convoy and the current state of our country.

Sincerely,

Eric

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:29:45 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Automatic reply: Hey Higgy Methinks some Premiers and
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Subject: Automatic reply: Hey Higgy Methinks some Premiers and the
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