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Canadian Conservative caught urinating in mug leaves campaign

Published 2015-09-07, 01:25 p/m
© Reuters. Canadian Conservative caught urinating in mug leaves campaign

TORONTO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Canadian Conservative election
candidate who was caught on camera urinating into a coffee mug
is no longer running for the party, a party spokesman said on
Monday.
Jerry Bance had been a candidate for the ruling
Conservatives in a Toronto-area district ahead of the Oct. 19
vote.
CBC News reported that Bance, a service technician, had been
caught on a hidden camera urinating into a coffee mug during a
house call to repair a leaky sink in 2012. It said he then
dumped the contents of the mug into the sink he was supposed to
be fixing.
He was filmed during an episode of the network's consumer
watchdog program "Marketplace," which was investigating whether
homeowners were being overcharged for simple repairs.
CBC said a tip on Sunday pointed out Bance was the
technician in the story.
"Mr. Bance is no longer a candidate," Conservative spokesman
Stephen Lecce said in a statement.
Bance could not immediately be reached for comment. But CBC
said he issued a statement in which he expressed regret, adding
the footage "does not reflect who I am as a professional or a
person."
The right-leaning Conservatives led by Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, who have ruled the country for nearly a decade,
are in a tight three-way race with the center-left Liberals and
New Democratic Party.

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