The chief export of Lyle Stewart is PAIN.
So it's a running joke that politicians in Canada have bodyguards to protect the public from them. Our BAMF (that's Bad Ass MotherFucker) former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien laid a choke-hold smackdown on a guy who hit him in the face with a pie (a popular form of protest in Canada), while his wife confronted an attacker who broke into their home (yes, the Prime Minister of Canada has crack security!).
Alberta's Premier Ralph Klein punched a guy who accosted him, and now MLA Lyle Stewart in Saskatchewan wins the prize for the most BAMF of all.
You can read the full story here, but the quick version is that Lyle pulled over on the highway to help a guy who had driven off the road. The guy - who it later turned out had escaped police custody earlier that day - claimed he had a knife, threatened Lyle and tried to steal his car. Ol' Lyle - a 58-year-old rancher - would have none of it and attacked the guy. They both ended up in Lyle's car, and in the end Lyle successfully pinned the guy - according to what my deputy minister heard that when the police arrived he had the guy pinned on the floor of the car with a foot on the guy's throat and crotch. Dude called the police while he was fighting the guy.
And people say Canadian politics is boring.
Alberta's Premier Ralph Klein punched a guy who accosted him, and now MLA Lyle Stewart in Saskatchewan wins the prize for the most BAMF of all.
You can read the full story here, but the quick version is that Lyle pulled over on the highway to help a guy who had driven off the road. The guy - who it later turned out had escaped police custody earlier that day - claimed he had a knife, threatened Lyle and tried to steal his car. Ol' Lyle - a 58-year-old rancher - would have none of it and attacked the guy. They both ended up in Lyle's car, and in the end Lyle successfully pinned the guy - according to what my deputy minister heard that when the police arrived he had the guy pinned on the floor of the car with a foot on the guy's throat and crotch. Dude called the police while he was fighting the guy.
And people say Canadian politics is boring.