On Canada's election trail - tales of bathrobes, hairstyles, mugs and pants


  • World
  • Monday, 19 Oct 2015

Canada's Prime Minister and Conservative leader Stephen Harper gets off his campaign plane with his wife Laureen (2nd R), son Benjamin (L), and daughter Rachel (R) in Abbotsford, British Columbia, October 18, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch

TORONTO (Reuters) - One candidate had to drop out after video footage emerged showing him peeing in a cup, another hid in bushes in camouflage to catch vandals defacing his signs, while a third slew a dragon in his campaign video.

It may have been one of the longest federal election campaigns in Canadian history but it certainly hasn’t been the dullest. For those who delight in the embarrassing revelation, the unexpected intervention, and the truly bizarre, it has been a campaign to savour.

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