I'd like to add something to that.
Yes, we've been seeing that trend for many months now. Last summer, you may have seen that a survey was conducted by Le Devoir, if memory serves me. Thirty-four per cent of responding federal parliamentarians said that they had received death threats. That's a growing phenomenon.
I'm concerned about it. Sometimes these threats are sent directly by email or letter. In other instances, they're posted to social media, where their reach is that much greater because many people see them and then think it's normal, indeed even acceptable, to make those kinds of comments and threats against parliamentarians and senior officials.
Even though some individuals post these threats on social media without intending to act on them, they can encourage people who hear this kind of rhetoric to take action.
We're lucky not to have seen that in Canada, but we've seen these kinds of threats carried out in other countries.