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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, right, speaks in advance of a assembly with enterprise leaders along Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ( now no longer seen) in Toronto, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press) Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland, right, speaks in advance of a assembly with enterprise leaders along Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ( now no longer seen) in Toronto, on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (Spencer Colby / The Canadian Press)
Men from Edmonton and Calgary are accused of threatening to kill a number of Canada's pinnacle authorities leaders.
On May 10, Mounties have been alerted approximately a chance to kill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the social media platform X, previously called Twitter.
Mason John Baker, a 23-year- antique Calgary resident, became charged on June 6 with uttering threats towards someone opposite to segment 264.1(1)(a) of the Criminal Code.
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In a separate investigation, Mounties found out on June 7 that YouTube person Garry Belzevick, 67, allegedly published threats to kill Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh.
Belzevick, from Edmonton, became charged on June thirteen with 3 counts of the identical offence as Baker.
"In the virtual age, wherein such a lot of interactions arise on-line and are seemed to be anonymous, there's a notion that digital moves and phrases do now no longer have consequences," Insp. Matthew Johnson commented.
"When those digital moves or phrases go the bounds of Charter- included speech and represent crook activity, police will look into very well to preserve the ones accountable accountable."
Both Baker and Belzevick will seem in courtroom docket of their respective towns this week.
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