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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.
Both Trudeau and Singh have been beset upon by hecklers in recent months as they struggle to make gains in the polls.
Last year, Singh fled an Ontario election event in Brampton after Sikh protesters confronted the NDP leader.
“We’ve got questions,” said one protester. “Don’t sell out!”
Singh did not respond to the hecklers and was driven away in a black SUV. According to one Twitter user, the event organizers called the police on the protesters who were there to confront Singh.
By far, Trudeau has faced the brunt of the outrage. Last month, the Prime Minister was chased out of an event in Belleville, Ontario by a crowd of angry protesters.
Singh was speaking outside of a Dominion grocery store in St. John’s, N.L., about high food prices when a man in a black car pulled up next to him in the parking lot shouting an expletive of a sexual nature about Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“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.”
At this point, the heckler pulls away and Singh carries on with his press conference, jumping back into talking about the cost of groceries without skipping a beat.
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