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Later on Sunday, Trudeau was once again diving right into the crowds on a street in Newmarket, Ont., where he went to support Liberal candidate Tony Van Bynen.

The RCMP tactical officers that had been on stage with him in Mississauga were there too, but they were not surrounding him as closely and Trudeau did not appear to be wearing a vest beneath his shirt.

Vir Sodhi, 32, stopped to join the crowd when he found out Trudeau would be there while he was visiting from his home in Toronto.

He said he agreed with Trudeau about the polarization of politics, but he also thinks that Canadian voters also bear some responsibility for responding to that kind of rhetoric.

“If we didn’t succumb to it, politicians wouldn’t continue to use it as a bait,” he said.

“I think we have to we owe it to ourselves to be a bit more engaged, a bit more educated about the process and kind of tune off or not engage with propaganda.”

Trudeau is heading into the final week of the campaign trying to beat back surging support for the NDP and Bloc Quebecois.

He also made an afternoon stop in Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, a riding the Liberals want to win back from Conservative Leona Alleslev. She won the riding in 2015 as a Liberal but crossed the floor to join the Conservative caucus in 2018.

On the campaign trail in Burnaby, B.C., NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said it is “wrong” Trudeau is facing threats requiring increased security.

“I want to let Canadians know you can have all sorts of opinions and it’s OK to disagree, but there should never be fear for any leader from any party to feel like there’s any threat to themselves,” said Singh.

Simon Jefferies, a spokesman for Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who took Sunday off from the campaign, also issued a statement condemning threats against politicians.

“No matter what you believe or how you vote, it is completely unacceptable to threaten anyone with violence,” he said in a statement.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 13, 2019.