Lawn sign threatening Liberals with violence reported to police
The Canadian Press | Posted: September 23, 2019 5:25 PM | Last Updated: September 23, 2019
'We shoot every third Liberal. Second one just left,' lawn sign in Constance Bay reads
Federal candidates in an Ottawa riding are condemning a homemade lawn sign that appears to threaten violence against Liberals.
The Liberal candidate in the riding of Kanata-Carleton, Karen McCrimmon, filed a police report on Sunday afternoon, according to her campaign office.
On Monday, McCrimmon, tweeted a photo of the handwritten sign, which reads, "We shoot every third Liberal. Second one just left."
The sign is in front of a private residence in Constance Bay.
McCrimmon wrote that she struggled with what to do after seeing the sign, but decided it was important to speak out against intolerance and suggestions of violence.
McCrimmon, a Canadian Forces veteran, said she "wore a flak jacket in Afghanistan to help secure the people there the right to vote."
Conservative candidate Justina McCaffrey, whose sign was pictured beside the homemade one, agreed that "threats of political violence have no place in our democracy."
She said she's asked her campaign staff to remove her own sign from the property.
Other candidates in the rural west Ottawa riding spoke out against the sign, too.