TORONTO -- Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer skipped a campaign event in Cambridge, Ont. as dozens of student protesters awaited his arrival.
Scheer was scheduled to visit a cafe on a campus of the University of Waterloo in the southern Ontario city, but a last-minute change of plans forced him to skip it in favour of another stop, L.A. Franks, a local hot dog spot just 600 metres away from the cafe.
About 50 climate protesters had awaited Scheer outside the campus cafe.
鈥淲e wanted to, as a student body, raise our voices and be able to share our concerns about our climate and the current climate situation,鈥 Sarah Mason, a student at the school and a member of its sustainability collective, told 麻豆影视 Kitchener.
A Conservative spokesperson told CTVNews.ca that Scheer was not avoiding the protesters, but that road construction and tight time constraints forced them to cancel the stop.
About a dozen protesters made it to L.A. Franks, where they could be heard chanting: 鈥淣o more oil, keep it in the soil.鈥
Later in the day, Scheer visited KR3, a Cambridge-based business specializing in baseball bats.
