Threats, abuse move from online to real world, McKenna now requires security [View all]

Threats, abuse move from online to real world, McKenna now requires security

Minister was confronted outside a movie theatre while walking with her children

Mia Rabson · The Canadian Press · 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/threats-abuse-move-from-online-to-real-world-mckenna-now-requires-security-1.5274766

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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she was recently walking outside a movie theatre with her children when a car slowly pulled to a stop beside them.

The driver rolled down his window and then he let fly.

"F--k you, Climate Barbie," he shouted, as she tried to back away from his car and get her kids away from him.

Much has been written about the online abuse and threatening behaviour politicians — especially female politicians — and others in the public eye face every day. But McKenna says as the heat around climate change continues to grow, that abuse is going from anonymous online vitriol to terrifying in-person verbal assaults.


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