As an official candidate, Johnston will receive voter information from everyone in the city the day after the nomination deadline in September.

Johnston is currently facing an assault charge in British Columbia, a hate crime charge in Ontario, and has posted many online posts trying to obtain the addresses of threatening AHS employees in order to arm their homes. .

But when CBC News commented on this, Johnston said he did not issue a threat.

Johnston said: “That’s absolutely inaccurate.” “All I did was make a promise.”

‘I will arm myself, I will walk to your house immediately

On his social media channels, Johnston made it clear that he was a mask, vaccine and rejection person, and most of his anger was directed at AHS employees, the current mayor of Calgary Naheed Nenshi and the city’s police.

In particular, an AHS inspector became the target of Johnston’s anger, and the mayoral candidate asked his followers to track her address. He also posted pictures of the woman, her husband and children online for thousands of followers. Johnston said that he covered up the children’s faces.

After his friends Artur and Dawid Pawlowski were arrested by Calgary police last Saturday, Johnston told AHS employees in a video: “You will all be put on. Handcuffs.”

The Pawlowski brothers ignored public health restrictions during the pandemic and have been organizing illegal church services.

He said to AHS employees: “I want to serve everyone.” “If the special police do not come, it is very simple, I will arm myself, and then I will walk to your door.”

The Calgary Police Department expressed “deep concern” that the personal information of its members and other members of the community will be distributed to candidates.

Watch | Calgary mayor candidate vowed to hunt down AHS workers in an online video:

Kevin J. Johnston said he has a home address and is determined to make life “uncomfortable” for certain Alberta health care workers. 0:35

In a written statement provided to CBC News, CPS stated that it is “cooperating with the city to restrict disclosure.”

CPS said in a statement: “Our members and members of our partner agencies face the risk of harassment and retaliation from community residents who may choose to harm them and their families.”

“This is especially worrying if the mayoral candidate is malicious and expresses a desire to cause harm.”

Johnston said that hypnosis is legal

A few weeks ago, Johnston issued another message to AHS employees, telling them that “so far, we have seven home addresses.”

Johnston said he will submit their names and addresses to the lawsuit and then distribute the documents.

“It’s legal to disturb someone, and that’s how we want to do it. So, as long as I’m in Alberta for a long time, AHS, your comfortable little days will be very uncomfortable.”

Dox is an identifying term used to publicly identify or release someone’s private information.

Johnston initially stated in a telephone interview with CBC News that he didn’t want anyone to be frustrated. However, when asked about his comments on legal notarization through court documents, he said: “Yes, that’s true?”

If the information collected from doxing is used in a certain way (such as harassing someone), the police can step in.

Johnston once posted shocking racist and hate speech on the Internet.

In March, Johnston sold clearly racist coffee in Calgary and called it with the slogan “Forgot to cheer, cheer for this” and with the same disturbing logo. “Wasting locals”.

Recently, Johnston posted a video suggesting that he take a picture of himself in front of the photo of the mayor of Calgary Naheed Nenshi hanging from the noose.

Criminal charges in 2 provinces

There are accusations that Johnston’s actions have crossed the line from threats to violence.

A video in March showed Johnston assaulting a grocery store employee in a parking lot in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, after being kicked out of the store for refusing to wear a mask.

Johnston was charged with assault and will appear in a British Columbia court on May 18.

More looming criminal charges against Johnston.

In 2017, police in Mississauga, Ontario filed a prosecution against Johnston Hate crime After he released the YouTube video, he offered a reward of $1,000 for the video of Muslim students expressing hate speech during Friday prayers.

The Peel area police stated at the time that the accusation of deliberately inciting hatred against an identifiable group came after “countless” incidents and concerns about information posted on various social media sites.

Johnston has not yet tried these charges, and the next court date is set for June.

Neither British Columbia nor Ontario’s allegations have been proven in court.

Hate speech is the worst

In 2019, a judge in Ontario ruled in a defamation lawsuit against Johnston, calling his actions “the worst example of hate speech, targeting people only because of their religious beliefs.”

The judge awarded Mohamad Fakih, the founder and owner of the Middle Eastern restaurant chain, $2.5 million in damages after Johnston publicly declared that Fakih provided funds for terrorist organizations and used his restaurants to introduce ” Illegal aliens”.

In addition to the videotape, when Johnston was in a local shopping mall with his three children, he also approached Fakih, accused him of being a terrorist and took pictures of his family, even when they tried to leave. Follow them into the parking lot when shopping.

Even with pending hate crime charges, Johnston still ranked second in Mississauga’s 2018 mayoral race.

There is no “escape valve” to protect voter information

Now, three years later, at 3,000 kilometers west, Johnston is running again.

Calgary said that both the Local Regulations and the Local Authority Election Act allow voter lists to be used for campaign purposes only, and Johnston said he would pay tribute to this.

However, people still worry about how he handles this information.

Zain Velji, a political strategist based in Calgary, said: “This is really worrying.”

“Our local authorities’ actions do not actually have any guidance or escape valves related to people who may not necessarily have to run for office in public office.”

Johnston has a history of stubborn, xenophobic rhetoric, and Virgi says that there is a delicate balance between candidates’ right to obtain voter information and the risk of being mishandled.

Virgi said that the personal information that Johnston will soon obtain is critical to helping voters outreach and mobilize, especially for first-time candidates.

but”[he] Now there will be more ammunition to unfortunately continue some of the barbaric and illegal activities he has been accused and accused of in the past. “