MPs React After Officer Questions Protest Attendee About Stance on Palestine Statehood to Access Parliament Hill

MPs React After Officer Questions Protest Attendee About Stance on Palestine Statehood to Access Parliament Hill
Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman asks a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Feb. 13, 2024. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Some MPs are calling for answers after a video circulating on social media appears to show a Parliamentary Protective Services (PPS) officer barring Parliament Hill access to a protest attendee who refuses to acknowledge Palestinian statehood.

The social media video posted on Oct. 5, shows the PPS officer stopping an individual from entering the area. In the video, the PPS officer says he will not let the man into that area because the man indicated earlier that he did not recognize Palestine as a state.