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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.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured at Yom HaShoah commemoration event at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa on April 28, 2022, had to cancel public appearance last week in British Columbia. The RCMP decided that it would not be safe for the prime minister to make a public appearance at a Liberal fundraiser because an anti-Trudeau crowd gathered outside, complete with truckers driving in a loop around the venue, might become an anti-Trudeau mob. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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