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This Guy's Run For Office Ended Because Of An Alleged "Hamster Eating" Video

It's definitely poutine, right?

A would-be Ontario politician says his candidacy was killed by the party because of an old video in which someone is alleged to have eaten a hamster off a hockey stick.

"Seeing no other outcome than me winning the nomination, the party made the decision to disallow my candidacy — using the flimsy excuse of a video I was part of many years ago," Duval said.

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That video, which Duval also uploaded to Facebook, is a “mockumentary” he helped film in 2012 about a hockey tournament.

Duval says a party official who spoke with him "accused me of filming someone eating a hamster," and that this weighed heavily in the decision to disqualify him from the nomination race.

"I informed Mr. Dunlop that the guy was eating poutine off of a hockey stick," Duval said. "Those facts didn't matter."

Here's the hamster/poutine in question.

And here's a gif version.

The whole thing has people confused.

I do not know what is happening and I don't know if I want to https://t.co/IDTEHQXSQu

Like... HOW?

How is it...I just don't...How can there be confusion over whether someone is eating a HAMSTER or poutine?!

At least this came out just in time to make all the year-end lists of "weird Canadian shit that happened in 2016."

Canada submits it's entry for strangest political scandal of the year. Was it a hamster or poutine? https://t.co/JIucPIA0dv