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The OPP has been asked to investigate after protesters brought what appeared to be a mock bloody guillotine to the front lawn of Queen’s Park.

Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod said the demonstrators went far beyond what’s acceptable political protest, calling their display disrespectful and cruel.

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“That is not respectable dialogue; that is not peaceful protest,” MacLeod said Thursday.

“That is a credible threat that we have referred to the Ontario Provincial Police.”

The protests that occurred here at Queen’s Park with a guillotine that chopped the head off an effigy of the Premier of Ontario does not reflect this province regardless of people’s political and partisan affiliations,“ she said.

The May Day rally brought a number of different protesters to Queen’s Park Wednesday, including some who carried communist symbols, a homemade guillotine and a sign that read, ”May history repeat itself. Chop! Chop!“