Several candidates who dispute next month at Battle River-Crowfoot reported having received negative and, sometimes “potentially threatening” comments on social media platforms in recent days, according to RCMP.
“While Canadians have the right to express their opinions, even those critics with political figures, threats or comments that cross the line in criminal conduct will take seriously,” RCMP wrote in a statement.
Independent candidate Sarah Spanier is one of the more than 150 candidates who challenge the driving with the conservative leader of the Pierre Poilievre party, which is postulated in driving to recover a seat in the House of Commons.
But Spanier said he has stopped at the doors for the moment, citing a flood of hostile comments he received in the course of his campaign.
“I had people who told me that I would regret it, and my family will regret,” Spanier said. “Then, slowly, he began to intensify, ‘If you come here, you will regret it.”
The rhetoric became “even more aggressive,” in Spanier’s opinion, after she began talking about her support for transgender people.
“The comments I received were only vile, and not exactly something you can say on television or radio,” he said.
Spanier shared screenshots with CBC news from several comments from social networks. A user published that “[Spanier is] An ignorant pig and prayer [she gets] Destroyed, “while another wrote” come to my door, they will regret it. ”
Another spanier loaded to try to “sabotage” Pailievre.
Of the more than 150 candidates who run against Pailievre, most are defenders of the electoral reform known as the longest voting committee.
