Manning says it was a Canadian who confronted him in San Juan

Earlier this week, an 81-year-old man blocked Prime Minister Patrick Manning from entering his property at Real Street, San Juan.

The man said he wanted nothing to do "with Manning and them" and told the Manning entourage his days of supporting the PNM are over.

But on Friday Manning revealed in Parliament that the man is a foreigner.

"It turns out, Madam Deputy Speaker, that the 81-year-old gentleman is a resident of Winnipeg, Canada...who returns to Trinidad and Tobago to spend the winter."

Opposition MP Roodal Moonilal, who was the one who raised the matter of PNM supporters rejecting Manning, offered his thoughts on Manning's explanation.

"You know what is fascinating about all of this is that the Prime Minister of a country gone and check out the man who tell him not to come in his yard...and he says the gentleman, who is 81 years old and threaten to cause him grievous bodily harm, is a resident of Canada who comes here in the winter.

"Madam Deputy Speaker, he could be a resident of Tokyo, if he is there and occupying there in whatever legal capacity and he tells you ’please don’t come in my property and you are trespassing, to go’.

"It is frightening that you would use immigration, the customs, the authority of the State to find out where this man living. This poor fella may now have to flee back to Canada before the winter finish."

Manning did not close the matter, letting Moonilal know that it was the well-oiled PNM machinery, not immigration or customs, that helped him catch the Canadian.

Moonilal was also not about to shut up.

"That gentleman along with thousands of others will respond to the machinery of the People’s National Movement ... on the next election day," he warned Manning.