Peterborough police investigating after protesters hurl insults at NDP’s Singh

OTTAWA — Police are investigating after a video circulated on social media showed people hurling verbal abuse at NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh during a protest in Peterborough, Ont., this week.

The federal NDP leader had dropped by the campaign office for Jen Deck, the Ontario NDP candidate for Peterborough-Kawartha in the provincial election, on Tuesday afternoon.

A video shows Singh encountering protesters as he left the campaign office, who can be heard shouting expletives at him and calling him a “traitor” as he gets inside a vehicle.

Tim Farquharson, the acting chief of the Peterborough Police Service, says in a video posted to YouTube today that police are “actively investigating” after receiving a complaint.