New P.M. defends ‘style’
NZPA-Reuter Ottawa The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr John Turner, who boasts that he is a tactile politician, has got into trouble with a women’s group for patting several women political activists on the bottom during campaigning. The group in Kitchener, Ontario, has produced special cardboard shields that can be tied around the waist whenever the Liberal Party leader campaigns and
calls them “bum (w)raps.” Mr Turner was seen on < television giving a pat to i the Liberal Party’s presi- 1 dent, lona Campagnolo, who ( promptly responded by delivering a friendly one of ‘ her own. : A Montreal party activist, 1 Lise St Martin-Tremblay, said that the pat she had got 1 made a change from the ’ former Prime Minister,. < Pierre Trudeau, “who never. I showed any sign of affec- < tion.” i
Asked if television filmclips of his posterior-patting might hurt his image with female voters in Canada’s election on September 4, Mr Turner replied with a laugh, “I’m reaching out to people and people are reaching out to me.” The handsome, silverhaired, 55-year-old Mr Turner told reporters, “I’m a hugger. I’m a tactile politician. I’m slapping people all over the place. That’s my style.” ■
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