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Oakville’s mayor is in hot water after comparing Stephen Harper’s added campaign security to militias associated with Hitler and Mussolini.

Rob Burton posted a link on Twitter Friday to a Canadian Press story that appeared on an Ottawa website about the Prime Minister hiring Canadian veterans to boost security while on the campaign trail.

This goes too far. Conservatives beef up campaign security with mercenaries http://t.co/d7S1nuXDxS via @bmptguardian — Rob Burton (@OakvilleMayor) August 28, 2015

Burton then followed the tweet with a post containing links to Wikipedia articles on Hitler’s and Mussolini’s security forces.

Any political parties had private police using veterans before? 1) https://t.co/5l9Ww0EcdW 2) https://t.co/EarLpbWIlS Any others? — Rob Burton (@OakvilleMayor) August 29, 2015

The hashtag #ResignMayorBurton began trending following the tweets and politicians began responding on the social media platform as well.

#ResignMayorBurton because Oakville is proud of Canadian veterans and doesn't think they're Nazi brownshirts. (Please RT) — Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) August 29, 2015

Mayor Burton of Oakville has compared Canadian military veterans who do private security work to NAZIs. Please apologize, @OakvilleMayor. — Jason Kenney ن (@jkenney) August 29, 2015

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In an interview with CP24, Burton refused to apologize for the tweets and denied he was comparing Canadian Forces to Nazis.

“I am not associating Canada’s veterans with anything. That’s what the Conservatives would like this to be about but this is about what a political party is doing and not who they are using to do it,” he said.

“We are sliding down a slippery slope here where private police details are being used to undermine the rule of law in Canada.”