The minister has stated that he accepts that coping with vigorous debate and sometimes overheated rhetoric are part of the job of a politician but argued that these online attacks directed to both him and his family had crossed the line into threatening behaviour that was unacceptable.
Le ministre a déclaré qu’il acceptait, en tant que politicien, de devoir composer avec des débats vigoureux et des discours parfois enflammés, mais a indiqué que les attaques lancées en ligne contre lui et sa famille avaient tourné à la menace, ce qui était inacceptable.