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RED DEER, Alta. \u2014 The co-owner of a bar in central Alberta doesn’t regret hanging up a large pinata of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the\u00a0Canada\u00a0Day weekend.<\/p>\n
Rob Newell admits, however, that in retrospect securing it with a rope around Trudeau’s neck at Burgundy’s Bar and Stage in Red Deer could have been done differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only downfall was for structural reasons we had to Zip-Tie the rope around his neck because someone would hit it once, it would have fallen,\u201d Newell said Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The pinata idea was sound, he said, and customers in the bar got a kick out of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were putting together the\u00a0Canada\u00a0Day party and I said it’d be funny to make a Justin Trudeau pinata. We filled it with money, candy and little notes of things he promised. It was all just in fun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s no surprise that people in Alberta don’t like the guy, so I knew it would get some traction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Newell said if Trudeau came into his bar, he’d be served just like any other customer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t hate the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finding a pinata of the prime minister wasn’t easy, so Newell made it himself, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turned out perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Newell said he isn’t surprised by the online backlash, but noted there have been more bitter protests against the Trudeau government.<\/p>\n
He pointed to a convoy of big rigs from Western\u00a0Canada\u00a0that drove to Ottawa in protest of a perceived lack of federal support for the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw kids carrying signs with Trudeau on fire and I thought that’s a little intense,\u201d Newell said. \u201cThere’s a lot more going on than a pinata at a party.\u201d<\/p>\n
Three years ago, when she was Alberta premier, a picture of Rachel Notley’s face was put up on a target at an oilmen’s golf tournament in Brooks, Alta. The event organizer said it was done because of frustration with the NDP government’s policies.<\/p>\n
The target was taken down and he apologized a few days later.<\/p>\n
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