A B.C. man has been sentenced to two months house arrest after pleading guilty to posting a Facebook video of himself threatening the life of Richmond Centre’s member of Parliament.
A judge gave Peter Liu a 60-day conditional sentence Wednesday after the 30-year-old admitted videoing himself calling Wilson Miao a “communist agent” before saying, “He will get what is coming to him” and firing a shotgun into one of the Liberal politician’s pamphlets.
Provincial court Judge Diana Vandor said the former Canadian Armed Forces reservist’s conduct “amounted to a direct and literal threat to a democratically-elected politician. More generally, a threat to democracy itself.”
“In this political system, this country’s future is decided at the ballot box instead of the barrel of a gun. There is no way to ignore the power of the message that this video conveys on democracy,” the judge said.
“Mr. Liu’s messaging invoked the use of political violence. …