http://www.torontosun.com/2017/01/15...6627f35100c550
The woman who told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau she could barely afford to eat after paying her carbon tax and hydro bills now says she’s been receiving threats online.
Kathy Katula, the 54-year-old mother of four and grandma of three, said after she was featured in the Toronto Sun about her Peterborough townhall appearance with Trudeau on Friday, trolls and haters have been flooding her Facebook wall with negative comments.
There were so many, she called 911 Sunday morning, fearing strangers would show up to her Buckhorn, Ont., home, 30 kilometres north of Peterborough.
“I’ve been trying to block people, so they can’t get into my Facebook,” she said Sunday. “There are people all over the place who think I’m hired by a politician and I’m a criminal committing fraud. There are things on there you couldn’t imagine in your wildest dreams.”
Katula told Trudeau she was a disabled personal support worker putting in 15 hours a day, paying $1,200 on hydro a month and a $900 mortgage. She asked how he was going to ensure the carbon tax would not penalize those who can’t afford to pay more.
“That was pure from the heart what I did the other day,” she said. “I wanted to go to church this morning and I was afraid to go out of my house.
“Someone thought I was lying about my electricity bill — they were going to come and get the reading from my meter at the side of my house,” added Katula. “Some of my kids are American living in the States and they don’t even want to acknowledge their mother right now because of what could happen.”
Police told her there wasn’t much she could do unless someone trespasses on her property.
“They said unless someone makes a threat on me or my life, then I’m just a citizen,” she said. “And that right now, I have to live with and accept.”
The Sun received e-mails from readers who were supportive of Katula’s plight — some even offered to donate money to her.
But as a self-made woman, Katula said she’s not interested in hand-outs.
“I didn’t do any of this to collect charity,” she said. “Everything I have, I worked for.”
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