Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer skipped a campaign event in Cambridge, Ont. as dozens of student protesters awaited his arrival.
Scheer was scheduled to visit a cafe on a campus of the University of Waterloo in the southern Ontario city, but a last-minute change of plans forced him to skip it in favour of another stop, L.A. Franks, a local hot dog spot just 600 metres away from the cafe.
A Conservative spokesperson told CTVNews.ca that Scheer was not avoiding the protesters, but that road construction and tight time constraints forced them to cancel the stop. About a dozen protesters made it to L.A. Franks, where they could be heard chanting: “No more oil, keep it in the soil.”Related Stories
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