Editors Note: The original news story has been updated after a French-to-English mistranslation incorrectly indicated that Peter MacKay said “You’re an angry man like your friend, Jason Kenney” to Erin O’Toole..Tory leadership frontrunners Peter MacKay and Erin O’Toole got into an unexpectedly heated exchanging during the party’s French-language debate..The two candidates spent much of the evening taking shots at each other, getting more personal than is usual in internal party races. Particular attention was drawn when MacKay attacked O’Toole for courting social conservatives in the party..“I’m pro-choice. I agree with gay marriage. I can win in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, and I can strengthen our base in the West,” said MacKay. .“You’re an angry man, Mr. O’Toole. You’re always angry.”.O’Toole responded, “You attacked me for voting against Bill C-279 in 2013,” to which MacKay said, ” It’s the same vote as your friend Mr. Kenney.”.C-279 was an NDP bill that critics said would allow transgender biological men to use women’s washrooms..The event’s French-to-English translator incorrectly translated the end of the back-and-forth exchange as, “You’re an angry man like your friend, Jason Kenney.”.Media outlets across Canada – including the Western Standard – used this incorrect translation in their initial stories about the debate.
