NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was quick to clap back at a drive-by heckler on Tuesday, inviting the man to 'have a conversation' with him instead of shouting expletives out of his car window.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was quick to clap back at a drive-by heckler on Tuesday, inviting the man to "have a conversation" with him instead of shouting expletives out of his car window.
"If you're homophobic, you know, keep it to yourself. Your homophobia is very inappropriate," Singh says as he turned to look at the driver.The man then yells "you're a piece of shit," as Singh says: "You're driving away… I'm right here, we can have a conversation if you'd like." As the media availability continued, Singh was asked by a reporter what he made of the exchange and how he deals with situations like this. Singh said he’s always open to having conversations with people who have concerns, but "someone driving by and yelling something is obviously not interested in having a conversation."
"So, a one-off of someone yelling something is not something that’s going to disturb me," Singh said. "I'm worried though about the climate where people are not willing to have a conversation, but are so upset that they want to just yell and scream. Where there's legitimate frustrations with the cost of living, with the cost of rent, the cost of a mortgage, I want to acknowledge that the anger is real and important.
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