Chris Wattie/Reuters MP Michelle Rempel speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in 2013.

TORONTO — The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is looking into complaints from citizens who have been blocked on social media by politicians and government agencies, HuffPost Canada has learned.

"We have gotten complaints about this and, we are just grappling right now with the assessment," Micheal Vonn, BCCLA's policy director, said Wednesday. "People are asking about this very question."

Vonn said a complaint landed in her inbox Wednesday morning from someone whose comment was deleted from a Facebook page run by a government agency.

Shelley Comer of New Westminster, B.C., hasn't contacted BCCLA, but she is upset that she is blocked from reading or commenting on the Twitter feeds of several Conservative MPs, including Erin O'Toole, Candice Bergen, Mark Strahl, Lisa Raitt and Michelle Rempel.

"It's really annoying that they think they can suppress dissent. I am not a rude person. I just ask questions about policy and criticize that," said Comer, who tweets under the alias @always_vote.

It started, she said, after she began watching question period in 2011 and live-tweeting about the daily responses the then Conservative ministers were giving. "It was block, block, block, block, block. Like crazy."

I am not a rude person. I just ask questions about policy and criticize that.Shelley Comer

Comer, a New Democrat supporter, is particularly incensed that she can't follow new Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's front bench. "So I don't even know what the Official Opposition is saying and what they are pushing. I just want to know because I'm politically active."

While Vonn cautions that the association is a long way from filing a lawsuit, south of the border, the American Civil Liberties Union has brought legal action against two state governors — Maryland's Larry Hogan and Kentucky's Matt Bevins — accusing them of censoring free speech by blocking citizens from commenting on their Facebook and Twitter pages.

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University is also suing U.S. President Donald Trump on behalf of people who have been blocked by his Twitter account.