‘They put a phone in your face and start filming you and insulting you’: MPs, cabinet ministers call out growing aggression, harassment by Hill protesters

Liberal MP Rob Oliphant was chased down the street, Bloc MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné says a protester grabbed a colleague’s coat, and NDP MP Lori Idlout was called a ‘Nazi’. MPs say they should be able to walk to and from the Hill without being harassed.
Conservative MP Kelly McCauley wades through Freedom Convoy supporters as he arrives on the Hill on Sept. 16, 2024. Security measures on Parliament Hill have been 'significantly' tightened in the wake of increasingly aggressive protesters—some of which have been associated with the 'Freedom Convoy' movement.

MPs and cabinet ministers say there is “a different tone” to the protests on the Hill recently with “really unpleasant” interactions in which politicians have been chased, heckled, and harassed, triggering “significantly tightened” security measures in the Parlia...

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