NDP MP Nathan Cullen speaks with the media following Question period Friday June 3, 2016 in Ottawa. Cullen is apologizing after the NDP MP weighed in on the debate around the Trudeau government's decision to force groups applying for summer-job grants to affirm their respect for a woman's right to have an abortion.
As a veteran of six election campaigns at both the provincial and federal levels, B.C. NDP candidate Nathan Cullen is used to the rough and tumble of politics. But none of that prepared the Bulkley Valley-Stikine incumbent Tuesday for the sight of himself with a noose around his neck hanging from a makeshift gallows on the side of a highway.B.C.
A volunteer with the politician's campaign spotted the defaced sign outside Smithers on their drive home along Highway 16, contacted Cullen and took it down. Cullen provided CBC News with a photograph of the sign.An image stolen from one of B.C. NDP candidate Nathan Cullen's signs hangs from a makeshift gallows by the side of a highway. The sign has been taken down and handed over to police.
"With the upcoming elections, candidates, who have lawfully placed signs on private or public property, have been getting signs removed or damaged," police said in a statement.In an email to CBC News, an RCMP spokesperson would not comment on specific reports of vandalism, but said it's a Criminal Code offence as either mischief or theft to damage or remove a campaign sign that has been lawfully placed.
Reports of the latest incident struck home with Chris Sankey, the B.C. Conservative candidate in the nearby riding of North Coast Haida-Gwaii. "It can be hard to determine what the intent is for someone. What for someone might be a dark joke, for another person might be a deliberate attempt to intimidate," Tenove told CBC News.
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