People's Party of Canada turfs riding president over Trudeau stone-throwing incident
Shane Marshall was the president of the Elgin Middlesex London riding association
Kate Dubinski · CBC News · Posted: Sep 09, 2021
RCMP security detail put their hands up to protect Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau from rocks as protesters shout and threw gravel while leaving a campaign stop at a local micro brewery during the Canadian federal election campaign in London Ont., on Monday, September 6, 2021. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
The People's Party of Canada removed the Elgin Middlesex London riding association president from his post after allegations that he threw gravel at Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau during a campaign stop in London, Ont.
Party spokesperson, Martin Masse confirmed in an email to CBC News that Shane Marshall has been removed because of the allegations.
No one from the party was available for interviews about the matter, Masse said. Email and phone requests to the candidate in the riding, Chelsea Hillier, were not returned.
Trudeau, security detail hit by gravel stones
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A protester threw what appeared to be a handful of gravel stones at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau outside a campaign stop in London, Ont., on Monday, striking him and members of his security detail. 0:08
The People's Party of Canada removed the Elgin Middlesex London riding association president from his post after allegations that he threw gravel at Liberal Party Leader Justin Trudeau during a campaign stop in London, Ont.
Party spokesperson, Martin Masse confirmed in an email to CBC News that Shane Marshall has been removed because of the allegations.
No one from the party was available for interviews about the matter, Masse said. Email and phone requests to the candidate in the riding, Chelsea Hillier, were not returned.
Trudeau, security detail hit by gravel stones
3 days ago
A protester threw what appeared to be a handful of gravel stones at Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau outside a campaign stop in London, Ont., on Monday, striking him and members of his security detail. 0:08
VIDEO Trudeau hit by gravel as protesters surround campaign bus in London, Ont.
Marshall is known in anti-lockdown and white-supremacist circles, said Peter Smith, an investigative journalist with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, an independent non-profit which researches hate groups and hate crimes.
"His online content mainly focuses on his political beliefs, which are fairly hard-line. This isn't someone who is just vaccine-hesitant or right-leaning," Smith said. "This is a person who expresses, through memes and videos as well as his appearances at multiple protests dressed in a balaclava waving a flag from Canada's colonial past, an explicitly white nationalist view."
London police have said they are investigating the stone-throwing incident.
CBC News has tried to reach out to Marshall for comment and will continue to do so.
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