CAJ calls on RCMP to investigate ‘vile’ hate-filled online attacks against journalists following Bernier’s tweets

The People's Party leader urged his followers last month to email journalists and 'tell them what you think of their disgusting smear jobs'.

PPC Leader Maxime Bernier, pictured April 15, 2021, on the Hill. Mr. Bernier urged his followers on Twitter to email journalists who had asked his party critical questions about its positions and supporters: 'write to these idiots to tell them what you think of their disgusting smear jobs,' he tweeted. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

October 4, 2021

People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier’s Twitter targeting of journalists last month, which unleashed a flurry of email attacks against the reporters singled out and others, could escalate into something far more serious, warns the head of the Canadian Association of Journa...

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