Thuggish threats to Trudeau’s safety also threaten our politics and democracy
For those who remember the last election campaign, Trudeau was dogged by ignorant, abusive mobs, including one that hurled not just insults and obscenities, but stones at the PM. Sorry. Fuck off is not a political statement. It is abuse. And it is also the death knell of politics as we know it.
HALIFAX—If there was an early warning system for threats to our politics and democracy, it would be pulsing red after Canada’s prime minister had to cancel a public appearance last week in British Columbia.
