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凱瑟琳·莫裏森 2025年8月16日
針對加拿大政客的威脅激增，僅2024年就達311起，這促使人們迫切呼籲在政治敵意和網絡謾罵日益加劇的背景下加強安保。 針對加拿大政客的威脅激增，僅2024年就達311起，這促使人們迫切呼籲在政治敵意和網絡謾罵日益加劇的背景下加強安保。 湯姆·漢森/加拿大新聞社
25年前，讓·克雷蒂安總理被一塊派砸到臉時，唯一受傷的隻是他的自尊心。
25年後，加拿大的安全格局發生了翻天覆地的變化。針對政客的暴力威脅變得更加常見。當時看似無害的惡作劇，如今卻更像是一個警告。
“有一種觀點認為，如果你是一名政客，一切都是公平的，”凱瑟琳·麥肯納說道——她在擔任聯邦部長期間也曾多次受到暴力威脅。
“我們需要人們從政，而不是感到受到威脅。這實際上關乎我們民主製度的健康，因為如果你想讓人們從政，你就不能指望他們會忍受這種事，他們的家人也會忍受。”
樞密院辦公室公布的文件顯示，近年來針對總理和內閣部長的威脅數量激增。
圖表顯示，2021年記錄了40起針對總理及其內閣的威脅。這一數字在2022年上升至91起，2023年上升至236起，2024年上升至311起。
樞密院文件報告稱，2021年記錄了11起專門針對時任總理賈斯汀·特魯多的威脅。次年，針對總理的威脅報告了25起。該文件顯示，2024年，特魯多收到了212起威脅。
樞密院文件顯示，2021年至2024年間，特魯多收到了90起死亡威脅。該文件稱，2024 年的統計數據涵蓋了 1 月 1 日至 7 月 17 日期間的數據。
雖然麥肯納表示，針對她的大多數威脅都來自網絡，但在她 2015 年至 2021 年的內閣生涯中，她曾因公開辱罵而受到指責——其中一次是在她和孩子們在電影院外散步時。
“這種事情無時無刻不在發生，在各個層麵都有發生，”她說。“我每次和政客交談，他們都會告訴我發生了什麽，而且通常是女性，尤其是少數族裔的原住民 LGBTQ2+ 群體成員。”
“你根本不知道……可能 99% 的（威脅）都沒什麽用。隻需要一個人……我覺得你不能胡鬧。”
愛德華王子島餡餅事件發生在2000年8月16日，當時克雷蒂安正在夏洛特敦參觀一個農業展覽會。
當總理走進展覽會場，開始與人們握手時，人群中一名男子走到他麵前，將一個看起來像是奶油餡餅的東西推到他臉上。
克雷蒂安一臉震驚地拿起餡餅盤擦了擦臉，這名試圖逃跑的男子被警方攔下。
雖然皇家騎警承認這起事件不應該發生，但這並不是克雷蒂安擔任總理期間第一次發生此類安全漏洞。
1996年，在加拿大國旗日活動上，克雷蒂安抓住一名抗議者的下巴和脖子，將他推到一邊——這一事件後來被稱為“肖維尼根握手”。
一年前，克雷蒂安的妻子艾琳曾與一名持刀闖入渥太華總理官邸的入侵者發生衝突。
負責保護性警務的皇家騎警助理專員米歇爾·帕拉迪斯表示，警方必須在保障官員安全和允許他們接觸公眾之間取得“艱難的平衡”。
“因為，如果議員、內閣大臣不外出與選民會麵，這真的會對我們的民主產生影響，”她說。
“我的職責是確保我們的成員和負責人不僅具備阻止此類事件的物質條件，還具備敏銳的思維能力，能夠指出哪些行為是錯誤的，”帕拉迪斯說。她還補充說，在2019年蒙特利爾的一次遊行中，皇家騎警迅速製服了一名與特魯多走得太近的人。
帕拉迪斯表示，自最近政府更迭以來，威脅形勢有所緩和。
她說，如果官員在網上受到威脅，皇家騎警將對發出威脅的人進行走訪，以確定他們是否有能力采取行動，或者是否存在心理健康問題。
帕拉迪斯表示，皇家騎警與政府官員、下議院、選區辦公室以及各部長的安保人員合作，完成風險評估。
“我認為我們對目前的情況有了更好的了解，”帕拉迪斯說。
最近，皇家騎警采取了多項措施來加強
民選官員的安全措施。
2024年，加拿大皇家騎警局長邁克·杜赫姆（Mike Duheme）請求政府考慮起草一項新法律，使警方更容易對威脅民選官員的人提起訴訟。
大約在同一時間，前公共安全部長馬可·門迪奇諾（Marco Mendicino）呼籲在政治選區辦公室周圍設立“保護區”，以保護議員及其工作人員。
麥肯納表示，她希望看到一個獨立的保護機構專門為保護總理和其他聯邦官員而設立。她表示，她希望看到政府通過網絡危害立法，並要求社交媒體公司對其平台上發布的威脅負責。
麥肯納表示，政客們也需要停止為了製作社交媒體視頻而互相人身攻擊。
“問題是，當他們進行人身攻擊時，人們很容易將他人非人化，”她說。 “這意味著對別人說壞話是可以的……走到他們麵前，在街上對他們大喊大叫，威脅他們也是可以的。”
當被問及是否需要加強安保措施時，帕拉迪斯表示，她和大多數警察“在現有基礎上行動”，並根據情況變化進行調整。
卡爾加裏大學政治學係教授、軍事、安全與戰略研究中心主任羅布·休伯特表示，去年美國總統唐納德·特朗普“險些遇刺”的事件表明，即使在今天，一個意誌堅定的刺客仍然可以接近政客。
“在很多這樣的活動中，你可以嚐試使用金屬探測器，可以嚐試進行預先篩查，但不可能實現100%的安全……襲擊政治領袖的威脅始終存在，”他說。“威脅始終存在。”
休伯特以2006年曝光的所謂“多倫多18人”恐怖主義陰謀為例，該陰謀旨在通過一係列公開襲擊，迫使聯邦政府從阿富汗撤軍。
他表示，加拿大政府官員從未遭遇過成功的襲擊，這可能是由於安保措施的加強，也可能是因為沒有其他人嚐試過。
退休皇家騎警克裏斯·馬瑟斯（Chris Mathers）是一家谘詢和調查公司的總裁，他表示，2000年的餡餅事件表明克雷蒂安“並沒有待在禁區內”——這意味著他經常偏離安保人員提供的保護範圍。
他說，特魯多“總是待在禁區內”，或許是因為作為總理的兒子，他從小就意識到針對政客的威脅。
“如果你待在禁區內，你遇到拿著餡餅、刀、槍或炸彈的人的可能性就會小得多，”馬瑟斯說。
馬瑟斯表示，“世界正在發生變化”，人們現在“變得更加激進，會做出和說出過去不會做的事情”。
“問題是，我們的社會已經開始變得非常寬容，在某些領域，不當行為幾乎被認為是勇敢的，”他說。“所以，公眾人物周圍的安保措施確實有所加強，這正是社會環境變化的結果。”
——吉姆·布朗斯基爾提供的文件
Decades after a PM got pied, the threat landscape in Canadian politics has changed
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By Catherine Morrison August 16, 2025
View Threats against Canadian politicians have surged, with 311 cases in 2024 alone, prompting urgent calls for stronger security amid rising political hostility and online abuse. Tom Hanson/ The Canadian Press
A quarter-century later, Canada’s security landscape has changed radically. Threats of violence against politicians have become far more common. What seemed like a harmless prank then looks more like a warning now.
“There is this view that you’re a politician, it’s all fair game,” said Catherine McKenna — who was herself the target of multiple threats of violence while she served as a federal minister.
“We need people to go into politics and not feel threatened. It’s literally about the health of our democracy because if you want people to go into politics, you can’t expect that they’re going to put up with this and their families are going to put up with it.”
Documents released by the Privy Council Office show that the volume of threats made against the prime minister and cabinet ministers has exploded in recent years.
A chart shows that there 40 threats against the prime minister and his cabinet were recorded in 2021. That number rose to 91 in 2022, 236 in 2023 and 311 in 2024.
The PCO document reports that 11 threats specifically targeting then-prime minister Justin Trudeau were recorded in 2021. The following year saw 25 threats against the PM reported. In 2024, Trudeau was the target of 212 threats, the document shows.
Between 2021 and 2024, the Privy Council document shows that Trudeau was the subject of 90 threats of death. The document says the 2024 statistics cover the period between January 1 and July 17.
While McKenna said most of the threats against her emerged online, she was famously singled out for very public abuse during her 2015 to 2021 cabinet career — once while walking with her children outside a movie theatre.
“It’s just happening all the time and at all levels,” she said. “I can’t talk to a politician without them giving me a story about what has happened, and often women, especially racialized, Indigenous members of the LGBTQ2+ community.
“You just don’t know … probably 99 per cent of (threats) are nothing. It just only takes one person … I don’t think you can fool around with this.”
The P.E.I. pie incident happened on Aug. 16, 2000, while Chrétien was visiting an agricultural exhibition in Charlottetown.
As the prime minister entered the building and began shaking hands with people, a man in the crowd went up to him and pushed what appeared to be a cream-topped pie into his face.
As a shocked-looking Chrétien peeled off the pie plate and wiped his face, the man — who had attempted to flee — was stopped by police.
While the RCMP acknowledged that the incident shouldn’t have happened, it wasn’t the first such security breach during Chrétien’s time as prime minister.
In 1996, Chrétien grabbed a protester by the chin and neck and pushed him aside during a National Flag of Canada Day event — the incident that later became known as the “Shawinigan Handshake.”
A year before, Chrétien’s wife Aline came face-to-face with an intruder who had managed to break into the prime minister’s official residence in Ottawa armed with a knife.
Michele Paradis, the RCMP assistant commissioner in charge of protective policing, said police have to strike a “difficult balance” between keeping officials safe and allowing them access to the public.
“Because, really, if MPs, ministers of the Crown are not going out to meet with their constituents, that has an impact on our very democracy,” she said.
“My role is to make sure that our members and our principals are equipped with not only the physical tools to stop that, but also the mental acuity to be able to say something is not right,” Paradis said, adding that Mounties were quick to bring down someone who got too close to Trudeau at a parade in Montreal in 2019.
Paradis said the threat landscape has calmed down somewhat since the recent change of government.
If an official is threatened online, she said, Mounties will pay the person levying the threat a visit to determine whether they have the capacity to act on it, or if there is a mental health issue at play.
Paradis said the RCMP works with government officials, the House of Commons, constituency offices and security officers for various ministers to complete risk assessments.
“I think we’ve got a better sense of the picture of what’s going on,” Paradis said.
There have been several recent efforts to boost security measures for elected officials.
In 2024, RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme asked the government to consider drafting a new law that would make it easier for police to pursue charges against people who threaten elected officials.
Around the same time, former public safety minister Marco Mendicino called for the creation of “protective zones” around political constituency offices to shield members of Parliament and their staff.
McKenna said she’d like to see an independent protective service created specifically to protect the prime minister and other federal officials. She said she’d like to see the government pass online harms legislation and hold social media companies accountable for the threats posted on their platforms.
McKenna said politicians also need to stop launching personal attacks on each other in order to generate social media clips.
“The problem is when they get personal, then it’s easy for people to basically dehumanize people,” she said. “It means that it’s OK to say terrible things about people and … it’s OK to go up to them and shout at them in the street and threaten them.”
When asked if more security measures are needed, Paradis said she and most police officers “work within what we have now” and adapt when things change.
Rob Huebert, a professor in the department of political science at the University of Calgary and director of the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, said the “near assassination” of U.S. President Donald Trump last year demonstrates that, even today, a determined assassin can still get close to a politician.
“On so many of these events, you can try to have metal detectors, you can try to have pre-screening, but it’s impossible to ever try to achieve 100 per cent security … the threat of an assault on a political leader is one of those constants,” he said. “The threat is always there.”
Huebert cited the example of the so-called “Toronto 18” terrorism plot, exposed in 2006, which was to involve a series of public attacks to convince the federal government to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
He said the fact that there have been no successful attacks on Canadian government officials could be the result of improved security — or it could be because no one else has tried.
Chris Mathers, a retired RCMP officer and president of a consulting and investigative firm, said the 2000 pie incident shows how Chrétien “didn’t stay in the box” — meaning he often strayed from the protective perimeter provided by his security detail.
Trudeau, he said, “always stayed in the box,” perhaps because, as the son of a prime minister, he grew up aware of threats against politicians.
“If you stay in the box, there’s a lot less chance that you’re going to be confronted by somebody with a pie or a knife or a gun or a bomb,” Mathers said.
Mathers said “the world is changing” and that people are now “a lot more aggressive and will do and say things that they wouldn’t in the past.”
“The problem is that we’ve started to degrade into a very permissive society and inappropriate behaviours are almost considered to be courageous in some areas,” he said. “So yes, security around public figures has increased, just as a result of the changing social environment.”
— With files from Jim Bronskill
