Premier of ALBERTA slammed for lifting woman's skirt at party - and apologizes by sending women irons!?
An Albertan Premier has come under fire after he lifted up a young woman’s skirt in public and then apologized by sending irons and cookers to complaining women.
Albertan Premier Jim Prentice is in hot water after video emerged that shows the moment he whipped up the skirt of a young woman he was dancing with.
The footage was captured during his lavish £650,000 58th birthday party on Mexico’s pacific coast two weeks ago and uploaded to YouTube.
Prentice, who is the Premier of the Western Canadian province of Alberta, is seen dancing closely with the young woman and throwing his hands in the air.
He then appears to put his hands on the woman’s dress at which point he quickly pulls the pink clothing up to reveal her white underwear.
Locals estimated there were around 50,000 revellers at the party, but the Premier came in for sever criticism after the video of his antics emerged.
Women’s groups instantly bombarded him with complaints in which Prentice responded by sending them irons, cookers and refrigerators as a way of saying sorry.
Speaking on the CBC later, the Premier said: "When one is happy, and the women are happy, one doesn’t calculate. It’s not an excuse, but I do ask for forgiveness from voters.”
Jim Prentice is no stranger to controversy, having jokingly confessed to pilfering “a little bit” of public funds in 2014.
However, he later called that incident nothing more than a party joke: “If I were a thief, I wouldn’t have been elected Premier twice,” he said.