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.
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