PARLIAMENT HILL, Ottawa—Some members of Anonymous may not remain so for long, or at least that is the hope of Canada’s Public Safety Minister Vic Toews who looks set to use the full force of Canada’s parliamentary committee system to investigate the source of videos threatening him.
On Tuesday, the RCMP, Canada’s federal police, also confirmed they had received a referral on the matter, but would say little else.
“We continuously assess the threat environment to ministers, but will not comment on the level of protection afforded to them,” notes an email from Laurence Trottier, media relations officer with the RCMP’s national headquarters in Ottawa.
Speaker of the House of Commons Andrew Scheer ruled Tuesday morning that the videos posted by YouTube users under the Anonymous moniker threatened Toews, constituting a breach of his parliamentary privilege, the protections and rights conferred on Members of Parliament.
It is not immediately clear which videos Scheer was ruling on, as there is more than one user account posting Anonymous videos targeting Toews.
