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The owner of the Ottawa Senators says he was subject to a profane tirade from MPP Lisa MacLeod at last weekend’s Rolling Stones concert near Barrie.

Eugene Melnyk was watching the Stones perform Saturday night, laughing and taking selfies with Senators fans as the band launched into its third song — Tumbling Dice — when he alleges the Conservative MPP for Nepean burst through the crowd and accosted him.

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“So I’m just there, we’ve got families and friends in a small group and I’m surrounded by people from Ottawa — and I see from the corner of my eye somebody trying to bust through,” Melnyk said in a phone interview Thursday.

“I’m thinking, ‘OK, might be a crazed fan and that’s fine. I’ve gotten used to it. And all of a sudden it’s this woman and she yells at me, ‘Do you know who I am?’

“I can’t place her so I said, ‘I’m sorry. No.’ And she yells, ‘I am your minister and you’re a f—ing piece of s–t and you’re a f—ing loser’.”