08 Jun Don’t tell Mom; she thinks I’m playing piano in a whorehouse

Victoria County Councillor Fraser Patterson, the NDP candidate in Victoria-The Lakes, scored a coup last week when he recruited fellow councillor Paul MacNeil to take him door-to-door in his home turf of Iona. The area is a Catholic Liberal bastion, and MacNeil’s family has been Liberal since before the flood.

At one stop, a homemaker poked her head out the door, eyed the two politicians, and said, “Paul, does you mother know what you’re doing?”