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   We know how huge Harper's personal security crew has grown since he   
   became Prime Minister - largest in our history.  His policies seem to   
   attract opposition everywhere he goes.   
   And now we're seeing one of his mercenaries, Pierre Poilievre, author of   
   the proposed 'Fair Elections Act', being the target of still another   
   detestable policy.   
      
   Just look at WHAT prompted a visit by RCMP to the home of a 73-year-old   
   man.  An email to Poilievre that compared him to "Nazi officials" !   
   Like the man didn't hit that nail squarely on the head ?   
      
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   April 15, 2014 - Globe and Mail   
      
      
   RCMP investigate threatening letter written to Poilievre   
      
   It's unclear how many letters, and the personal information of those who   
   sent them, have been turned over to the RCMP by government after the   
   initial threat to Mr. Poilievre was reported   
      
   An investigation into a threatening letter sent anonymously to the home   
   of Democratic Reform Minister Pierre Poilievre – the man spearheading   
   the controversial Fair Elections Act – has led RCMP to question at least   
   one other letter-writer who wrote and signed his own message to the   
   minister criticizing the bill.   
      
   It's unclear how many letters, and the personal information of those who   
   sent them, have been turned over to the RCMP by government after the   
   initial threat to Mr. Poilievre was reported.   
      
   But Barry Epstein, a 73-year-old retiree from Manitoulin Island in   
   Ontario, said he was visited on April 11 by RCMP after writing an April   
   9 e-mail to Mr. Poilievre about the bill. The e-mail is very harshly   
   worded – more than any he'd written before, Mr. Epstein says – and   
   challenges Mr. Poilievre to come to an all-candidates meeting before   
   next year's election.   
      
   "I look forward to lining up at the microphone and telling you in person   
   what kinds of a pathetic excuse for a human being you really are.   
   Canadians are on to you now. Your day in the sun is coming to an end,"   
   Mr. Epstein wrote, signing "yours angrily" with his name and address.   
   The e-mail also compares Mr. Poilievre to two Nazi officials.   
      
   Mr. Epstein said RCMP visited him about his e-mail and interviewed him,   
   saying they were following up on another letter, sent anonymously by   
   mail and around the same time, with death threats to Mr. Poilievre.   
   According to Mr. Epstein, police told him that he and three other   
   letter-writers from the same Sudbury region were being questioned.  He   
   wasn't arrested and doesn't believe he's suspected of any wrongdoing.   
      
   The RCMP didn't confirm or deny any investigation.  A spokeswoman for   
   the minister declined comment, calling it a "security matter," as did   
   the Prime Minister's Office.  "Questions related to an RCMP   
   investigation should be referred to the RCMP," PMO spokesman Carl Vallée   
   said.   
      
   The anonymous, threatening letter appears to have led RCMP to question   
   others who wrote to Mr. Poilievre.  Mr. Epstein said he was   
   fingerprinted by police, only after consenting, who said they had pulled   
   fingerprints from the envelope sent to Mr. Poilievre.  "It wasn't an   
   unpleasant or intrusive experience.  The officers who were here were   
   very professional, and I didn't feel I was under threat or pressure,"   
   Mr. Epstein said in an interview.   
      
   The bill has proven deeply divisive, with a broad range of non-partisan   
   experts calling for significant changes.   
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   Some groups have led letter-writing campaigns against the bill, which   
   Mr. Epstein opposes. "I have very strong feelings, of course, like other   
   people, that it's a threat to our democracy and our rights to vote   
   freely in this country," he said.   
      
   RCMP in Ottawa, and in the division overseeing the Ontario region,   
   declined comment. "I can say that our RCMP investigators routinely speak   
   with persons in the course of their duties to determine the substance of   
   allegations, but I don't have any comment on that specifically," said   
   RCMP Sergeant Richard Rollings, a spokesman for the Ontario division.   
      
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