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EDMONTON — The mayor of a small town in Manitoba has apologized for telling a yellow vest protest that he’d like to see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau duct-taped to the front of a pipeline pig.

On Jan. 5, in advance of a truck convoy, one of many that have popped up around the country in the past couple months, Mayor Murray Wright of Virden spoke from the back of a flatbed to the assembled crowd, the Virden Empire-Advance reported.

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“I know what I’d like to do with Mr. Trudeau but I’d be in jail if I did that,” said Wright. “I’m sure that the first pig we run through the pipeline when we get it built out west that he’s duct-taped to the front of it with that pig behind his ass when it goes.”

A pig is a device that’s ran through a pipeline to perform maintenance. The yellow vest movement originated in France, fuelled by outrage over French president Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax, but jumped to Canada around early December, inspiring a wide range of conservative protests, from fears over illegal immigration to concern about the state of the oil and gas industry. There have, as well, been multiple convoys across the country, with trucks adorned with flags and signs showing support for the oil and gas industry.