London police have charged a former People’s Party of Canada riding president with throwing gravel at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau..On Saturday, police announced Shane Marshall, 25, of St. Thomas, has been charged with one count of assault with a weapon..PPC spokesman Martin Masse told Global News on Thursday that Marshall, the president of the Elgin Middlesex London riding association, is no longer with the party..News video of a Liberal campaign event in London, Ont., on Monday shows a man throwing gravel at Trudeau as he tried to board his bus..Trudeau later told reporters he was hit by gravel, which also struck members of the news media..Trudeau described the protest as “anti-vaxxer mobs.”.“That’s not how we do things in Canada, and quite frankly as I continue to campaign, I am inspired by those people who continue to do the right thing in the face of anti-vaxxer mobs, who are not respecting the basic science, and the basic decency that Canadians have rightly come to expect from each other,” he told reporters..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
London police have charged a former People’s Party of Canada riding president with throwing gravel at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau..On Saturday, police announced Shane Marshall, 25, of St. Thomas, has been charged with one count of assault with a weapon..PPC spokesman Martin Masse told Global News on Thursday that Marshall, the president of the Elgin Middlesex London riding association, is no longer with the party..News video of a Liberal campaign event in London, Ont., on Monday shows a man throwing gravel at Trudeau as he tried to board his bus..Trudeau later told reporters he was hit by gravel, which also struck members of the news media..Trudeau described the protest as “anti-vaxxer mobs.”.“That’s not how we do things in Canada, and quite frankly as I continue to campaign, I am inspired by those people who continue to do the right thing in the face of anti-vaxxer mobs, who are not respecting the basic science, and the basic decency that Canadians have rightly come to expect from each other,” he told reporters..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
