A 31-year-old Calgary man has been charged after he allegedly made a threat on Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
The federal RCMP\u2019s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) launched an investigation after receiving a tip about a YouTube account that posted a death threat aimed at Carney.<\/p>\n
INSET, with the assistance of the Calgary Police Service, arrested and charged Jamie Dacosta with uttering a threat against the prime minister of Canada.<\/p>\n
Dacosta remains in custody ahead of a hearing in the Alberta Court of Justice on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n
\u201cRCMP Federal Policing is mandated to investigate criminal offences arising from terrorism, espionage, cyber attacks, nuclear security risks, foreign influenced activities, incidents involving the security of an Internationally Protected Person (IPPs), the unlawful release of national security information and terrorist financing,\u201d the RCMP said in a news release Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs part of its protective mandate, the\u202fRCMP\u202fis responsible for safeguarding designated Canadians and select foreign diplomatic personnel residing in Canada, as per Article 22 of the\u202fVienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, as well as visiting IPPs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police say security continues to be a concern for public figures within Canada and abroad, a situation that \u201cis a time for increased vigilance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The public can assist law enforcement agencies by reporting suspicious activities to the RCMP national security information network\u2019s non-emergency line by phone at 1\u2010800\u2010420\u20105805 or online at\u202fwww.rcmp.ca\/report-it<\/a>.<\/p>\n Immediate threats to national security should be reported to 911 or your local police department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old Calgary man has been charged after he allegedly made a threat on Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[147,111],"class_list":["post-210710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mark-carney","tag-apple-news","tag-mark-carney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}