OTTAWA — Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says federal security agencies initially refused to offer her protection — and wouldn’t even show her the risk assessment they’d completed — as she faced a rising tide of threats and harassment online and in person.

McKenna was the Liberal MP for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021 and served in cabinet the entire time, first as environment minister and later as the minister of infrastructure.

She has previously discussed the years of abuse she endured in politics — particularly as the minister responsible for the Trudeau government’s climate policy — but describes her experiences in far more detail in her new autobiography, Run Like a Girl, which is being released next week.

In the book, she says the attacks on her expanded over time f

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