Canada’s Public Safety Minister, Marco Mendicino, has cautioned that continuous harassment of Canadian public leaders is a major threat to democracy.
Last Friday’s verbal attack on Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland in the Canadian province of Alberta was condemned by federal government officials as the latest in a troubling trend of public abuse and hatred directed at Canadians.
Last Friday, a video of the incident surfaced on social media, showing a man approaching Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland as she walked in an elevator at City Hall in Alberta, hurling profanity at her and calling her a traitor, while a woman joined him and told Freeland: “You don’t belong here.”
What occurred yesterday was incorrect. No one, anywhere, should face threats and harassment, stated Freeland on Twitter.
The incident, described by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a cowardly weekend, demonstrated the rising targeting of persons, mostly women and racial Canadians, who speak or work in public capacities like as politics, media, or other areas of responsibility.
Harassment of public people is a problem, according to Canada’s public safety minister.
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