My empathy level is now waaaaay down. This wasn't snapping at security -- this really was unacceptable:
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Despite the apology, the staff member says he and others remain livid about the way they were treated.
"Everybody was … trying to get her out, trying to help her. But she took it upon herself to think everyone was trying to block her at every move," he said. "She was very unprofessional, very unorganized, very rude."
According to the staffer, Ms. Guergis and her assistant showed up 15 minutes before her scheduled Air Canada Jazz flight to Montreal around 5:30 p.m., already nagging employees to hurry up.
"She was yelling at the Jazz agent to hurry up and that [he was] wasting her time and that she had to get going because she wanted to get home [to her husband] because it's her 'effing birthday,'" the employee said.
They were told they could not tote their oversized bags as carry-on and would have to check them. The pair approached the gate and began banging trying to break through.
"A staffer went to the gates to tell her to just hang on because she was literally banging and kicking on the glass at the security doors," he said.
When they reached security, she ran through the metal detectors, he said, setting off the bells.
"She took her boots off and she threw them" at a security official, he said, berating them the whole time.
Then she was waved over by another staffer, a single mother, he said.
She said 'I'm going to be stuck in this shithole because of you,'" he said.
After clearing security, the two had to wait at the security gate for an Air Canada staffer who had left to search for Ms. Guergis and her aide.
"They started kicking and banging on the glass at the gate trying to get out," he said.
The pair were finally allowed on the plane, the staffer said, which had since been delayed so Ms. Guergis could board.
"There was 40 some-odd other people that she should also be apologizing to," he said.
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Education is not only an academic one but a social and cultural one as well. It isn't difficult to figure out what Guergis' education level is. Having said that, I have done a lot of overseas travelling and have not found security to be offensive in any country I have travelled. However, in Canada it has been my experience on a number of occasions where I have been treated not so well. I am not condoning Ms. Guergis' attitude but Canadian national airport security goes out of its way to be intimidating.
Isn't Guergis the Bollywood MP chick that really mistreated her foreign servants.
Guergis, Dhalla, sad to say but they both lack temperment and judgment.
Both parties would benefit if they both decided not to run for re-election.
Anyone disagree?
Let's all remember the deputy Prime Minister and lady from the EAST END of HAMILTON who was S COPPS in Halfix so bad they did a skid in the AIR FARCE.
no, she's not the NannyGate MP - she's the one who married the cokehead ex-MP Jaffer. And now it's clear she's a diva. Shades of Bobby & Whitney.
Just call her "earthquake mama"!!!
She's lucky she had that meltdown in Charlottetown and not any US airport, where she would have been taken away by security, tasered (or subdued by other means) and quite possibly charged.
I never had much respect for her to begin with but the little I had has been eroded with this incident.
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