Watch above: The Morning Show discusses Nadon’s backpedaling after claiming to have been drafted to the Detroit Red Wings at 14 years old.
TORONTO – Everyone has a relative who exaggerates their childhood stories, but not everyone’s relative sits on Canada’s highest court.
Marc Nadon, whose nomination to the Supreme Court was announced Monday, has come under fire for his Wednesday claim to an ad hoc committee of parliamentarians that he was drafted by the Detroit Red Wings when he was just 14 years old.
While it may seem obvious that no one is drafted for an NHL team at 14, Nadon’s comments raise the question of whether little white lies are appropriate for a Supreme Court Justice.
“I wasn’t trying to say that I was going to play for the Red Wings that year or something to that effect,” Nadon told The Huffington Post Canada on Thursday. “I certainly didn’t lie.”
Nadon reportedly said his father told him he would have been part of the Red Wings organization had he turned out to be the next Wayne Gretzky.
Puckstruck.com‘s Stephen Smith was one of the first hockey bloggers to point out the false claim, and since told the Toronto Star: “Drafted means drafted, and Canadians know what the word means.”
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