Heckler tossed from Kennedy fundraiser

January 7, 2002
Source: National Post
Original story - link verified on January 8, 2002
By Robert Remington

Security guards evicted a man who attempted to shout down Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a $250-a-plate fundraising dinner Saturday night as Mr. Kennedy delivered a stinging indictment of the environmental effects of factory-like hog operations. "Ten years from now, the people of this province are going to curse the day they ever heard of this industry," Mr. Kennedy told about 700 people, including a host of Hollywood celebrities, at a fundraising gala at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. One man rose to his feet and told Mr. Kennedy to stop lecturing Canadians on the environment. "Clean up your own back yard. How dare you come to Canada and tell us what to do," said the local Banff businessman, who was ushered out of the hotel ballroom and scuffled with security in the lobby of the hotel's convention centre. "I paid my money, I have a right to be here," said the man, who refused to identify himself.

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