It might be the most insincere apology in political history..People’s Party candidate and pot backer Mark Emery was lambasted on Twitter Monday night after saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be hung and have his body displayed on the street..Emery made the comment moments after Trudeau was showered with gravel by a protester in Ottawa..“He is a vile leader. He deserves a much worse fate. I’m thinking Mussolini,” Emery tweeted.. Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-8.23.34-AM-1Mussolini and henchmen hung on the streets of Milan .Benito Mussolini was the Fascist leader of Italy during the Second World War. Along with his mistress, he tried to flee to Switzerland at the end of the war but was captured and executed by partisans. The bodies of Mussolini and his mistress were then taken to Milan where they were hung upside down at a gas station to publicly confirm their demise..Emery’s call for assassination drew anger on social media. It came as the Canadian campaign trail heated up. In the last several days, Trudeau campaign stops have seen angry protesters block his bus and shower him with profanities..Last night Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh both condemned the gravel throwing incident..Political commentator Warren Kinsella said he alerted the RCMP over the Emery tweet..“PPC candidate suggesting Justin Trudeau deserves to be assassinated. I’ve sent it to the @rcmpgrcpolice. Maybe they’ll do something. #cdnpoli” tweeted Kinsella..PPC leader Maxime Bernier also condemned the pebble throwing, but noted attacks against him have gone unreported by the mainstream media..“Someone hit me with an egg last week. I note that none of the other party leaders made any statement. Some idiot threw pebbles at Mr. Trudeau yesterday. I condemn it. Words are our weapons. But physical violence is ALWAYS wrong,” Bernier tweeted on Tuesday..“I also note that no journalist seems to have asked the other leaders to comment on this aggression against me, but some are asking ME to comment on the pebble incident. Fair and balanced coverage as usual…”.Late Monday night, Emery, uh, apologized and said he had taken down the tweet at the request of Bernier..“At the request of my leader, I offer an apology for comparing our noble & Honourable Prime Minister with Mussolini. Surely this Paragon of @liberal_party virtue can not be compared with revieled dictatorship of the past. Just vote him out. That’s what any believer wants,” tweeted Emery..Emery is running in the riding of London North-Centre, where he’s currently helping his brother run a cannabis store..The riding is currently being held by two-time winner Peter Fragiskatos, a Liberal..In 1980, Emery ran in the same city as a Libertarian..He has been running various, unsuccessful campaigns for office since then..Emery moved to Vancouver in March 1994, and founded Hemp BC, a store selling cannabis-related paraphernalia like bongs and pipes which were illegal to sell in Canada at the time. In early 1995, he launched Cannabis Canada Magazine..In 2000, he was a founding member of the Marijuana Party of Canada. Emery ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Marijuana Party Candidate in the 2000 federal election. In 2001, he helped found the British Columbia Marijuana Party (BCMP)..He has been charged, fined and jailed repeatedly for breaking laws on both sides of the 49th Parallel..In 2004, he was jailed for three months in Saskatchewan for assault. In 2005, he was charged in the US with drug and money laundering offences and entered a plea bargain to serve five years. That deal collapsed and he served five years for drug distribution..In 2017, he was arrested in Toronto for more drug offences and served two years probation..In January 2019, he was accused of sexual harassment by several women..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
