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Conservative MP [Jean-Pierre Blackburn] apologizes for tequila tantrum
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| Last Edited | Monsieur Apr 09, 2010 08:51am |
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| News Date | Mar 19, 2010 08:00am |
| Description | A second federal Conservative cabinet minister has had to apologize after a conflict with airport security.
Veteran’s Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn was forced to explain his behaviour yesterday after it was reported that he had taken strong issue with security guards at the Ottawa airport who refused to let him on a plane with a bottle of tequila.
Mr. Blackburn’s pre-boarding problem occurred on Feb. 23, four days after Helena Guergis, the Minister of State for Women, had a meltdown in the Charlottetown airport – a tantrum that involved the throwing of boots and the branding of Prince Edward island as a “hellhole.” She has also apologized.
It was unclear why Mr. Blackburn, a veteran flyer, arrived at the airport with a bottle of tequila. It has been more than three years since passengers were prohibited from boarding aircraft with more than 100 millilitres of any liquid.
Sources told CTV News that, when the minister was asked to relinquish the booze, he became irate and demanded that the security officials empty the bottle in front of him. The argument, said the sources, became so heated that security almost called the police. |
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