Next month, a political group in Canada called the Saskatchewan Party is holding a pig roast fundraiser. The guest speaker will be a New York City firefighter who was trapped inside the World Trade Center on 9/11. There's just one slight issue . . .
--The poster advertising the event includes a photo from September 11th of the World Trade Center on FIRE. Think about that one for a moment . . .
--Photo of the World Trade Center on fire . . . the guest speaker is a public servant who was trapped in the north tower . . . and the caption reads "Pig Roast." You see how some people might have a problem with that?
--According to a spokesman for a rival political party called the New Democratic Party, quote, "I have a number of family members who are police officers, and there's colloquialisms that are used to describe police officers.
--"Unfortunately, the bad taste of using the superimposition of the words 'pig roast' on the burning flames of the building is . . . certainly something that I would not have allowed to proceed if it was my fundraiser."
--Officials with the Saskatchewan Party say the poster was an accident, and they didn't mean to offend anyone. (CBC News)
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