Video of candidate’s nasty prank prompts #peegate trend
He was one of two candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada who were recently eliminated from the race after past actions resurfaced online.
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Jerry Bance, running as a candidate in the Conservative Party of Canada for Scarborough-Rouge Park, learned this lesson Sunday. He was eliminated from the race after a video made the rounds on the online.
The video showed Bance, who runs a repair company, urinating into a coffee cup in a customer’s kitchen after fixing a dishwasher leak. Though the clip of Bance urinating was broadcast in an episode of CBC-TV’s “Marketplace” in 2012, the former candidate wasn’t identified until Sunday night.
Shortly after the video resurfaced, the hashtag #peegate was trending on Twitter throughout Canada. Users shared memes and jokes about Bance leaving the race:
Conservative candidate “deeply regrets” urinating in mug, but not as much as the next person to use the mug #peegate #cdnpoli
— Bob Rae (@BobRae48) September 7, 2015
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