Canadian politics is ‘not safe’ right now, and MPs ‘are in harm’s way’: former public safety minister
‘Many’ MPs work ‘in a perpetual state of fear,’ says Liberal MP Marco Mendicino. NDP MP Charlie Angus was recently accosted at a beach in his riding. House Sgt.-at-Arms Patrick McDonell said harassment of MPs has increased almost 800 per cent in the last five years. Countless MPs, cabinet ministers, party leaders, and the prime minister have been subjected to threats and death threats. This should not be normal.
The attempted assassination of former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in the United States on July 13 sounded what has become an all too familiar alarm for Canadian politicians who have been facing increasing threats of political violence for yea...
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