The Liberal lawmaker said he was pushed by one of the protesters who had gathered at Parliament House during the first week of the fall session.
Several lawmakers said they had been harassed throughout the week by protesters who called politicians and their staff “traitors”.
Liberal MP Tlaib Noormohamed told CBC Radio The House As he was leaving the Capitol building earlier this week, he was reportedly shoved by a protester.
In an interview with CBC News’ The House host Catherine Cullen, British Columbia Liberal MP Tlaib Noormohamed described a time when she and her colleagues were surrounded by a group of protesters in Ottawa. Noormohamed said they called them “traitors” and that she was pushed aside by the protesters.
“A group of people surrounded us and started shouting foul language, obscenities and saying some pretty nasty things,” Noormohamed told host Catherine Cullen in an interview aired Saturday.
“One of them literally grabbed me with both hands and pushed me away.”
Noormohamed said the Parliamentary Protection Service (PPS) had detained the woman who they said pushed him, but she continued to chase him down the street, screaming.
Earlier this week, the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh was confronted by two protesters after someone accused him of being a “corrupt bastard.” The incident happened just outside the doors of the West Block as PPS officers looked on.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh confronted protesters outside Parliament Hill after one of them called him a “corrupt bastard.”
The PPS said it had stepped up security measures in the wake of the incident, but one Liberal MP said he feared it might not be enough.
Pam Damoff, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office for Consular Affairs, wrote to Defence Sergeant Patrick McDonnell on Wednesday urging him to further tighten security.
“I feel unsafe and am worried someone may be seriously injured,” Damoff said in the letter obtained by CBC News.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Nunavut’s NDP MP Lori Idlaut,” said Nunavut NDP MP. The House She also confronted protesters and was at one point called a “Nazi.”
“I didn’t take it seriously because I knew there were Indigenous people who were at greater risk, there were Indigenous people in greater danger,” she said.
“What’s happening with the protests is just a symptom to me. It’s just that systems of racism exist. It’s just a symptom of what we have to do to address the deeper roots of racism.”
But NDP MP Gord Johns said violent protests are happening outside of Ottawa, too, and that his own constituency office has been the target of protests and vandalism recently.
“Someone once threw an axe at my window, my office window,” he told Cullen in a separate interview.
Johns also spoke about a protest that took place at a local office during a tax workshop aimed at helping people with disabilities.
“People who actually need help are leaving, and that’s what we’re dealing with,” Johns said.
Immigration Minister Mark Miller’s constituency office It was destroyed earlier this summer.NDP MP Leah Gazan said in an online post last week that someone has thrown a brick at the window of her constituency office twice in recent weeks.
“Every council member has a story, some of them just don’t want to share it up front,” Johns said.
Noormohamed said he was concerned that harassment of politicians was becoming commonplace.
“What we’re starting to see is people are behaving in ways that wouldn’t be acceptable in other professions, other jobs,” he said.
“You can’t go to your local Tim Hortons and yell obscenities and curse words at the person pouring you your coffee.”
