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A man has been charged after staff say someone phoned the legislature office of Environment Minister Shannon Phillips and threatened to shoot everyone over the carbon tax.

Michael Enright, an oil products salesman from Camrose, said he didn’t make any threats and was simply calling to voice his frustration over the hurt currently being experienced in his industry.

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“This was nothing. This was me having a bad day,” Enright said when contacted by The Canadian Press on Thursday. “I’m a very calm person. Everybody knows me as a guy who never gets upset.”

Cheryl Sheppard of the Edmonton Police Service said Enright faces one Criminal Code charge of uttering threats.

The call happened a week ago, on March 31, in the middle of the afternoon.

“He was calling to express his anger over the carbon tax,” a staffer in Phillips’ office told police in a statement.

The staffer told police the caller, who refused to identify himself, referred to the minister as a man. When he was reminded Phillips was female, “he told me the NDP only hire people with boobs, not qualified people.”