Security may be increased at the constituency offices of Manitoba legislature members in the wake of recent fires and vandalism that are being investigated by police.

“We’re evolving as a legislature to recognize that we’ve got to keep the constituency assistants safe, we’ve got to keep members of the public who are dropping in … we’ve got to keep the (legislature members) and ministers safe themselves,” Premier Wab Kinew told reporters Wednesday.

Kinew’s comments came one day after an early-morning fire broke out at the constituency office of Manitoba Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine in the St. John’s area of Winnipeg. Windows at the same office were smashed earlier this month.

In the adjacent constituency of Point Douglas, there have been four reports of small fires being set at the

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