Tory candidate won’t apologize for joking that polar bears could deal with homeless

A campaigner for enactment of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives says helium won’t apologize for making a gag astir tackling homelessness by letting polar bears roam escaped successful Winnipeg.

Wally Daudrich made the remark earlier this week successful the Manitoba superior portion speaking astatine 1 of the meet-and-greet events helium has held recently.

Daudrich, who runs an ecotourism and polar carnivore circuit concern successful Churchill, Man., said there’s nary homelessness contented successful the bluish municipality for evident reasons.

He told the lawsuit that his program is to bring 10 polar bears to Winnipeg and merchandise them successful beforehand of the legislature.

A enactment subordinate who was astatine the event, Thomas Rempel-Ong, says there’s nary crushed to gag astir susceptible radical becoming carnivore food.

The Opposition Tories are to take betwixt Daudrich and legislature subordinate Obby Khan successful the enactment race, acceptable to beryllium decided April 26.

Daudrich’s comment, archetypal reported by CBC, came astatine the commencement of his code Wednesday evening.

“I ever accidental wherever I travel from successful Churchill, we don’t person immoderate stateless people. Anybody instrumentality a conjecture why?” Daudrich is heard saying connected a video of the gathering posted connected societal media.

“When there’s superior repercussions for a atrocious lifestyle, radical smarten up precise quickly. So my program is to import 10 polar bears and fto them spell successful beforehand of the (legislature) … and fto them person astatine ‘er.”

In an interrogation Friday, Daudrich said helium won’t apologize.

He said homelessness is chiefly caused by cause addiction, and he’s against cause addiction.

“Obviously being retired connected the streets has superior repercussions and that is the constituent of the comment,” helium said.

“It’s a joke. There’s nary apology. I’ll astir apt accidental it again adjacent week.”

Rempel-Ong, a Winnipeg nonmigratory who volunteers with an bureau that serves the homeless, said helium was taken aback erstwhile helium heard the comment.

“In my world, you don’t gag astir feeding stateless radical to the polar bears.”