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The Industry Minister dove into action this weekend to help rescue a young woman from a river near his Port
Tony Clement says he was having dinner on Saturday when he heard a frantic knocking at the door.
“This young woman was hysterical, screaming that her friend was in the water and drowning,” the Parry Sound-Muskoka MP said Sunday.
Clement says he rushed outdoors to the Muskoka river while his wife and father-in-law grabbed life-jackets.
“As I’m getting closer to her, I can feel myself tiring and I can feel undertows starting to push me under the water,” Clement said after he jumped into the water.
Clement scrambled to get to the riverbank, while the woman drifted downstream where Clement’s wife and father-in-law were able to jump in and pull her from the water.
Clement says people “just kept talking to her, putting her clothes around her. We just wanted to keep her conscious and calm.”
But I still think he’s wrong on the census!
7 comments:
Good for Clement?
Well, good for him trying to help the girl.
Bad on him for rushing to Twitter to pat himself on the back when he didn't actually save the girl.
http://twitter.com/tonyclement_MP
Bad on the media for not interviewing the victim, or the actual people who pulled her out of the water.
Bad on the media for returning to the scene with cameras so Tony, and only Tony, could deliver the play by play.
Not my type of "hero".
Yeah, b/w your jumping onto this "Wag the Dog" change the channel story, and your sell out Op-Ed ('Why, there's no diff b/w the 3 parties as fas ar I can see...') it looks like you're auditioning for a Senate seat or the next G-G post or something.
More Like good for Tony Clement's Wife and Father In Law..
Geez, guys he jumped into the water then scurried back to shore..
Typical CPC spin!
He probably threw her into the water in the first place.
There's a great movie called "The Contender" where a potential VP candidate is found to have set up an incident where he tries to save a girl from a drowning car accident.
Wonder if Tony has seen that flick lately.
I agree it is better not to crow about doing good -- but that said, I still think good for Clement -- and if there's a Senate seat available (viz anon) I'm in.
Kidding aside, my point in the Star was that the NDP is not the Liberal Party (or the Conservative Party). And it isn't.
That was only one of your points: the bigger carry-away was that you were totally discounting the fears of the hidden -- but now overt! -- Con. agenda, and told all centrist & right voters that they might as well stick with or even switch to the Conservative govt since they've become as pragmatic as the Libs would be. You've thrown away the election. All because thru your narrow lens of criminal law you haven't seen enough to be concerned about.
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