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凯瑟琳·莫里森 2025年8月16日
针对加拿大政客的威胁激增，仅2024年就达311起，这促使人们迫切呼吁在政治敌意和网络谩骂日益加剧的背景下加强安保。 针对加拿大政客的威胁激增，仅2024年就达311起，这促使人们迫切呼吁在政治敌意和网络谩骂日益加剧的背景下加强安保。 汤姆·汉森/加拿大新闻社
25年前，让·克雷蒂安总理被一块派砸到脸时，唯一受伤的只是他的自尊心。
25年后，加拿大的安全格局发生了翻天覆地的变化。针对政客的暴力威胁变得更加常见。当时看似无害的恶作剧，如今却更像是一个警告。
“有一种观点认为，如果你是一名政客，一切都是公平的，”凯瑟琳·麦肯纳说道——她在担任联邦部长期间也曾多次受到暴力威胁。
“我们需要人们从政，而不是感到受到威胁。这实际上关乎我们民主制度的健康，因为如果你想让人们从政，你就不能指望他们会忍受这种事，他们的家人也会忍受。”
枢密院办公室公布的文件显示，近年来针对总理和内阁部长的威胁数量激增。
图表显示，2021年记录了40起针对总理及其内阁的威胁。这一数字在2022年上升至91起，2023年上升至236起，2024年上升至311起。
枢密院文件报告称，2021年记录了11起专门针对时任总理贾斯汀·特鲁多的威胁。次年，针对总理的威胁报告了25起。该文件显示，2024年，特鲁多收到了212起威胁。
枢密院文件显示，2021年至2024年间，特鲁多收到了90起死亡威胁。该文件称，2024 年的统计数据涵盖了 1 月 1 日至 7 月 17 日期间的数据。
虽然麦肯纳表示，针对她的大多数威胁都来自网络，但在她 2015 年至 2021 年的内阁生涯中，她曾因公开辱骂而受到指责——其中一次是在她和孩子们在电影院外散步时。
“这种事情无时无刻不在发生，在各个层面都有发生，”她说。“我每次和政客交谈，他们都会告诉我发生了什么，而且通常是女性，尤其是少数族裔的原住民 LGBTQ2+ 群体成员。”
“你根本不知道……可能 99% 的（威胁）都没什么用。只需要一个人……我觉得你不能胡闹。”
爱德华王子岛馅饼事件发生在2000年8月16日，当时克雷蒂安正在夏洛特敦参观一个农业展览会。
当总理走进展览会场，开始与人们握手时，人群中一名男子走到他面前，将一个看起来像是奶油馅饼的东西推到他脸上。
克雷蒂安一脸震惊地拿起馅饼盘擦了擦脸，这名试图逃跑的男子被警方拦下。
虽然皇家骑警承认这起事件不应该发生，但这并不是克雷蒂安担任总理期间第一次发生此类安全漏洞。
1996年，在加拿大国旗日活动上，克雷蒂安抓住一名抗议者的下巴和脖子，将他推到一边——这一事件后来被称为“肖维尼根握手”。
一年前，克雷蒂安的妻子艾琳曾与一名持刀闯入渥太华总理官邸的入侵者发生冲突。
负责保护性警务的皇家骑警助理专员米歇尔·帕拉迪斯表示，警方必须在保障官员安全和允许他们接触公众之间取得“艰难的平衡”。
“因为，如果议员、内阁大臣不外出与选民会面，这真的会对我们的民主产生影响，”她说。
“我的职责是确保我们的成员和负责人不仅具备阻止此类事件的物质条件，还具备敏锐的思维能力，能够指出哪些行为是错误的，”帕拉迪斯说。她还补充说，在2019年蒙特利尔的一次游行中，皇家骑警迅速制服了一名与特鲁多走得太近的人。
帕拉迪斯表示，自最近政府更迭以来，威胁形势有所缓和。
她说，如果官员在网上受到威胁，皇家骑警将对发出威胁的人进行走访，以确定他们是否有能力采取行动，或者是否存在心理健康问题。
帕拉迪斯表示，皇家骑警与政府官员、下议院、选区办公室以及各部长的安保人员合作，完成风险评估。
“我认为我们对目前的情况有了更好的了解，”帕拉迪斯说。
最近，皇家骑警采取了多项措施来加强
民选官员的安全措施。
2024年，加拿大皇家骑警局长迈克·杜赫姆（Mike Duheme）请求政府考虑起草一项新法律，使警方更容易对威胁民选官员的人提起诉讼。
大约在同一时间，前公共安全部长马可·门迪奇诺（Marco Mendicino）呼吁在政治选区办公室周围设立“保护区”，以保护议员及其工作人员。
麦肯纳表示，她希望看到一个独立的保护机构专门为保护总理和其他联邦官员而设立。她表示，她希望看到政府通过网络危害立法，并要求社交媒体公司对其平台上发布的威胁负责。
麦肯纳表示，政客们也需要停止为了制作社交媒体视频而互相人身攻击。
“问题是，当他们进行人身攻击时，人们很容易将他人非人化，”她说。 “这意味着对别人说坏话是可以的……走到他们面前，在街上对他们大喊大叫，威胁他们也是可以的。”
当被问及是否需要加强安保措施时，帕拉迪斯表示，她和大多数警察“在现有基础上行动”，并根据情况变化进行调整。
卡尔加里大学政治学系教授、军事、安全与战略研究中心主任罗布·休伯特表示，去年美国总统唐纳德·特朗普“险些遇刺”的事件表明，即使在今天，一个意志坚定的刺客仍然可以接近政客。
“在很多这样的活动中，你可以尝试使用金属探测器，可以尝试进行预先筛查，但不可能实现100%的安全……袭击政治领袖的威胁始终存在，”他说。“威胁始终存在。”
休伯特以2006年曝光的所谓“多伦多18人”恐怖主义阴谋为例，该阴谋旨在通过一系列公开袭击，迫使联邦政府从阿富汗撤军。
他表示，加拿大政府官员从未遭遇过成功的袭击，这可能是由于安保措施的加强，也可能是因为没有其他人尝试过。
退休皇家骑警克里斯·马瑟斯（Chris Mathers）是一家咨询和调查公司的总裁，他表示，2000年的馅饼事件表明克雷蒂安“并没有待在禁区内”——这意味着他经常偏离安保人员提供的保护范围。
他说，特鲁多“总是待在禁区内”，或许是因为作为总理的儿子，他从小就意识到针对政客的威胁。
“如果你待在禁区内，你遇到拿着馅饼、刀、枪或炸弹的人的可能性就会小得多，”马瑟斯说。
马瑟斯表示，“世界正在发生变化”，人们现在“变得更加激进，会做出和说出过去不会做的事情”。
“问题是，我们的社会已经开始变得非常宽容，在某些领域，不当行为几乎被认为是勇敢的，”他说。“所以，公众人物周围的安保措施确实有所加强，这正是社会环境变化的结果。”
——吉姆·布朗斯基尔提供的文件
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
