A timeline of political violence and rising security on Parliament Hill since 2014

Death threats, arson, violent imagery, vandalism, and more: Canadian politics is becoming more violent, MPs say.

Members of the Parliamentary Protective Service prevent protesters bearing large wooden flagpoles from entering Parliament Hill grounds on Jan. 28, 2023, the anniversary of the Freedom Convoy protest. The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson

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BY CHELSEA NASH

August 5, 2024

The following timeline outlining an increase in political intimidation, harassment, and violence over the last 10 years—beginning with the 2014 shooting on Parliament Hill—is thorough, but undoubtedly incomplete.

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