A Winnipeg city councilor is offering an apology and says he is embarrassed about spending the night at the Main Street Project.
It’s the facility where police drop off people to sleep who’ve had had too much to drink.
Coun. Ross Eadie said he had too much to drink Friday and early Saturday morning after a night out in the Exchange District.
A friend put him in a cab where Eadie said he likely passed out, and that’s when the taxi driver called police for assistance.
Eadie said he was likely belligerent with the cabbie and the emergency workers.
“I would like to start off by apologizing to the Winnipeg public service - that could be the police officers and paramedics who attended the situation that I was in. And I would just like to apologize for any undue belligerence I might have caused them. I was really, really drunk,” said Eadie.
“Being totally blind and woken up disoriented, I would have reacted belligerently toward anyone trying to prevent me from going home.”
Eadie was not charged with a crime. While he said the taxi driver and police on scene followed protocol, he is questioning a move by the police service.
Eadie said the service informed the mayor’s office about the incident.
The councilor said the mayor is not his boss - it’s the people who elected him in the Mynarski ward.
The police service said it will not comment on the matter.
