Number of threats, death threats against cabinet ministers increased as pandemic continued, Privy Council ...

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The number of threats against federal ministers increased throughout the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Privy Council Office data, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland the most common targets. Trudeau received 29 death threats in 2022, seven in 2021, and six in 2020, according to statistics from the PCO’s Crisis Management Cell , which co-ordinates the office’s emergency situations response.

An Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre threat assessment for Canada Day celebrations in 2023 noted that 'threats and threatening behaviour' over vaccines and public health mandates during the pandemic were 'diversifying and have normalized violence targeting elected officials as a means to express dissent.

 

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