Canadian TV host Steve Ecklund killed a cougar for a stir fry. Then social media roasted him
Laureen Harper, wife of former Canadian PM, lambasted hunter Ecklund as a ‘creep’ compensating for a ‘small penis, probably’
A Canadian television host faced a backlash Thursday over a legal cougar hunt, including from the wife of a former prime minister who launched a sharp personal attack over his killing of the big cat.
Steve Ecklund, host of The Edge outdoor show, posted on his Facebook page several images of him posing with the cougar’s bloodied carcass and later cooking the meat in a stir-fry.
He’d shot the animal earlier this month in northern Alberta, saying in an online post it was “an unreal ending to a fun-filled season.”
A firestorm of criticisms quickly erupted on social media, with people calling Ecklund a “sick goof,” a “scumbag” and other unflattering epithets.
“What a creep,” Laureen Harper, the wife of former prime minister Stephen Harper, said in a Twitter message.