Police, Senate investigating threat over carbon pricing bill: Senate leader – Brandon Sun
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Bernadette Clement says Andrew Scheer’s social media post prompted angry calls to her office, racist abuse online, and a threatening phone call from a man saying he was coming to her house
Two members of the Independent Senators Group say police and parliamentary security are investigating a threat that forced one of them to leave her home last weekend after a social media post blasted members of the upper chamber for their position on a carbon-pricing bill for farmers.
“The common sense Conservatives are launching a full-on campaign to push for Liberal senators to allow the passage of Bill C-234,” said Pierre Poilievre, in reference to a Conservative private member’s bill looking to further carve out the carbon tax for farmers.
A bill to create more carbon price exemptions for farmers is in the home stretch in the Senate as the federal government faces sustained criticism for its decision to exempt home heating oil from the federal carbon pricing system.