OTTAWA \u2014 Politicians in Canada are speaking out about political violence after Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney offered condolences to Kirk’s family and friends.<\/p>\n
“There is no justification for political violence and every act of it threatens democracy,” he said on social media.<\/p>\n
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Kirk’s shooting must be strongly denounced.<\/p>\n
“Political violence is NEVER justified,” Poilievre said in a social media post. “The attacker must be brought to justice. And free speech must be upheld.”<\/p>\n
Kirk, whose death was announced on social media by Trump, was speaking at a debate hosted by his non-profit political organization.<\/p>\n
Immediately before the shooting, Kirk was taking questions from an audience member about mass shootings and gun violence.<\/p>\n
Liberal member of Parliament Anthony Housefather said on social media that Kirk’s murder is a “tragedy.”<\/p>\n
“I hope that those on this & other platforms that repeatedly personally attack people & incite hate against them look at this and see the potential real life consequences of targeted hateful rhetoric,” Housefather said.<\/p>\n
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith posted on social media that she is “saddened and horrified” by the shooting.<\/p>\n
“Political violence has no place in a free and democratic society and must be condemned without reservation,” Smith said.<\/p>\n
Yves-Fran\u00e7ois Blanchet, leader of the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, posted about the incident on social media from Washington.<\/p>\n
Blanchet said in French that, beyond people’s beliefs, people have to remember that a family has just been devastated by an act that can only be matched by sadness and is unfortunately a sign of dark times. He also offered his condolences to Kirk’s loved ones.<\/p>\n
Charlie Angus, a former New Democrat MP, said he was “appalled” at Kirk’s death.<\/p>\n
“Politics has been pushed to the point where extremist language leads to violence,” Angus said on social media.<\/p>\n
“In a democracy there is no justification for the murder of a man over ideas. This is a wake-up call.”<\/p>\n
\u2014 With files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Politicians in Canada are speaking out about political violence after Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73454,49,48,73453,73456,73455,44,18277,45587,862,5046,1942],"class_list":["post-135133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-anthony-housefather","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-conservative-activist","tag-kirks-death","tag-news","tag-pierre-poilievre","tag-political-violence","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-prime-minister-mark-carney","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}