Canada’s elections has hired security guards before the month’s election at Battle River-Crowoot, they were told candidates on Friday.
More than 200 candidates are playing driving together with the leader of the Pierre Poilievre Conservative Party, which is running in driving to recover a seat in the House of Commons.
Last week, RCMP said that several candidates who challenge the partial election had informed having received negative comments and, sometimes, “potentially threatening” on social networks platforms in recent days.
Independent candidate Sarah Spanier said she listened to at the meeting that the Canada elections had seen the way people reacted online, and that this was taken as a “preventive measure.”
“I was actually very happy because I was taking notes through all this and I really put two very, very large stars next to those points when spoken,” Spanier said.
“Because I am like, ‘this is incredible. This is a proactive behavior.’ He acknowledges that security is a problem for candidates.”
Spanier spoke previously about continuous harassment and personal attacks in the campaign, which led her to stop the door of the door for a while.
Spanier had shared screenshots with CBC News of several comments from social networks, one of which declared Spanier “[is] An ignorant pig and prayer [she gets] Destroyed, “while another declared that she should get to her door, she” will regret it. “
She had said that much of the rhetoric became aggressive after publicly declaring their support for transgender people.
Citing a positive response from RCMP and no more “credible threats”, Spanier returned to the campaign this week.
High number of candidates a taxpayer
In an email to CBC News, Elections Canada said that “Canadians must be sure that they can exercise their right to vote in safe and safe places.”
“Throughout the electoral period, the official officers work in close collaboration with the owners of voting places to discuss the potential requirements, including the use of security guards. They are also in contact with local authorities during the entire electoral period,” says the statement.
Of the more than 200 candidates in driving, most are defenders of the electoral reform known as the longest voting committee.
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The conservative leader Pierre Poilievre faced nine other candidates during a political debate of two and a half hours in Camrose, Alta., Before the election of Battle River-Crowot. The BYS selection is an opportunity for Pailievre to join the House of the Commons after his former Carleton lost in the general elections of April.
While most candidates are part of the longest voting committee, Spanier is not. A committee spokesman said that while he was not at the meeting, he had heard of the movement to hire security guards.
The high number of driving candidates contributed to the measure, said Canada’s elections.
“Due to the number of candidates in Battle River-Coot, and the potential of an unusual number of observers and media in the voting sites, security guards were hired as a precautionary measure, in case additional support is needed for tasks such as directing traffic,” said Canada.
‘I’m glad they are doing something’
Spanier added that they told him that security will be at each advanced voting station and that the vote day will also be present.
“I’m glad they are doing something … I just need more clarity. I am not the only one who has faced this type of security problems, and it is not something new for this choice,” said Spanier.
Darcy Spady campaigns, the liberal candidate in the partial election, and independent candidate Bonnie Critchley, also attended the meeting.
Spady said it sounded as if Canada’s elections had made their determination quite early, only because of the amount of “noise” that the bynelector choice was attracting from its earliest stage.
“I would say that it was less a reaction and more caution, just for all the attention that this has been receiving,” said Spady. “It has been a bit active, let’s say that.”
Spady said he realizes that this election has put candidates on the national stage, and has seen even more “additional exaggeration” due to the presence of the longest voting committee.
“It is a very interesting mixture of not your three or four usual flavors, and factor national attention,” he said.
“Frankly, I am a bit disappointed. Battle River-Crowfoot is a pleasant place with pleasant people, and I am a bit disappointed that the drum is beating aloud and that people are expanding. I think we must make sure we maintain an orderly way of making elections in Canada.”
A Poilievre spokesman did not immediately respond to a comment request on Friday. The BYS choice is scheduled for August 18.
