Prime Minister Stephen Harper was the victim of a hoax Tuesday.

Erroneous information on the hacked Conservative Party website said Harper was rushed to the Toronto General Hospital after choking on a hash brown.

“He took his daughter Rachel to school (in Ottawa) this a.m., came into work and I’m currently sitting across from him,” Harper’s director of communications, Dimitri Soudas, told the Toronto Star Tuesday.

Soudas confirmed that there was “unauthorized access” to the party’s website.

The Prime Minister’s Office was quick to refute the story, but not before at least one Toronto radio station reported it as fact.

The phony posted bulletin said Harper was rushed to TGH by helicopter after his wife called 911.

“He was eating breakfast with his kids when a piece of hash brown lodged in his throat, blocking air reaching his lungs,” stated the bulletin, which suggested Harper would make a full recovery but miss important meetings during the interim.

The Conservative Party is reported to be investigating how the website was hacked.

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