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Nice fellow, that Lenny, though as a campaign worker for Pierre Poilievre discovered recently, you don’t want to get stuck talking to him.

“Oh good. Yes … yes, yes,” answers Lenny when the worker, whose name sounds something like “Segalle,” asks if he’s willing to put an election sign on his lawn.

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But as a recording of the 11-minute, 14-second conversation posted to YouTube reveals, it’s all befuddlement from there.

“What was that again?” Lenny asks in his soft British accent. “Sorry, again?”

Segalle obligingly raises her voice as she quizzes Lenny on the voting intentions of his household, only to be treated to inside information on Lenny’s daughters — Rachel, a bit of a hothead, you know, and Larissa, the third-eldest but first in the family to go to university — before he again asks her why she’s calling.

And then there are the ducks. “Sorry, could you just hang on for one second here, hang on,” says Lenny to a chorus of quacks in the background.