PARLIAMENT HILL, Ottawa—Several MPs have been seen with crutches around Parliament Hill this week with injuries ranging from torn ligaments to a fractured hip.
Treasury Board President Stockwell Day takes the prize for the best war story as for why he’s been hobbling around with the help of an aluminum limb.
“I got hit by a high speed dog, an unleashed high-speed dog, and it sent me for a flying loop,” said Day after question period on Monday.
“When I landed, my ankle twisted all around and tore all the ligaments and the dog ran off with the shirt that I was carrying.”
His purple extremity will be examined weekly until he can get permission to walk without the crutch, he said.
Bloc Québécois MP Carole Lavallée is also using crutches, but jokes the story of her injury is not as interesting as Day’s. A hole tripped her up, she said. While Day’s brace wraps his leg almost to the knee, Lavallée’s only hugs her ankle.
NDP leader Jack Layton, too, has had to resort to crutches. NDP press secretary Jesse Brady said Layton has a micro-fracture in his hip but didn’t give any further details about the injury.
“It’s minor, but he has to be nice to it for a while.”
