Another student barred from Conservative Party rally

[CHIMO]

As a young voter looking to learn more about what political parties stand for, Joanna MacDonald was thrilled to learn Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper was coming to town for a campaign rally.

The 21-year-old environmental science student at the University of Guelph immediately went online to the local Conservative candidate’s website and signed up to attend the event.

But when she arrived Monday at the Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre where Harper was scheduled to speak, her registration in hand, MacDonald was informed she was not welcome.

“I was told the RCMP had done a screening and that perhaps my name was affiliated with something on Facebook or the Internet,” MacDonald told the Star. “Something that made me unfit to enter. They wouldn’t say what it was.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/970185--another-student-barred-from-conservative-party-rally?bn=1

RCMP seems to have become an arm of the Conservatives!

[Boojatta]

1. "RCMP seems to have become an arm of the Conservatives!"

I haven't researched the issue, but my suspicion would be that the RCMP protects the current Canadian Prime Minister, regardless of the Prime Minister's party affiliation.

Perhaps the barred student should make a request under freedom of information legislation to find out the reason for being barred, rather than relying on somebody's guesses.

[IntravenousDemilo]

2. The RCMP protects the current Canadian PM...

... except in the 2006 election, eh? They were already working for opposition leader Harper at that point.