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A 48-year-old man was arrested last week on two charges of criminal harassment after he was accused of stealing a Pride flag, burning it and — according to police — "screaming" anti-gay epithets.

The arrest demonstrates that "hate has no place in our community and our country and will not be tolerated," Ferreri said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.

Other social media responses to Ferreri called her "pathetic," a "fake Conservative," some accused her of being a "groomer" who holds "liberal, red tory values" and suggested police ignored other offences to go after this "woke, vote getting 'crime.'"

Another X user asked if Ferreri had ever considered "going to bat for the straight white people who voted you into office."

"What politicians need to realize is that this is a very small minority in Canada — and they're being allowed to have an outsized voice and influence through social media," he said of anti-LGBTQ advocates.

"That's what can happen — you bully people into silence. But we have to remember, silence has a cost," he said. "Populism and fascism are creeping into Canada."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/con...257454?cmp=rss

Will the Conservatives reject these supporters, or embrace them? Because this is what you get when you don't unequivocally stand for the rights of Canadians.