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Gill said he now regrets deleting the post in question and maintains that the officer who visited him told him “I did nothing wrong and I was never cautioned.”

But an email sent by the officer, Alex Shah, to Oosterhoff following Shah’s visit with Gill suggests otherwise. It states: “I did advise (Gill) to avoid communicating with your (sic) via social media which he understood. If he continues to contact you with any threatening messages, disclosing personal information, or attending your residence, please give us a call back to document for future action(s).”

Peter Gill, a retired inspector with the Niagara Regional Police who has no relation to Rob Gill, questioned why police needed to make a house visit.

“I don’t agree with the way they handled it,” he told the Post.

“I’m not sure (Gill) deserves a visit from police because of something he posted on Twitter.”

That said, “I don’t think there was bad intention here by police.”

Oosterhoff, who at 19 became the youngest person elected to the Ontario legislature in 2016, has described himself as “100 per cent pro-life” and decried the passage of a law later that year that gave equal parenting rights to same-sex couples as “disrespectful to mothers and fathers.” He once posted a link on Facebook that said homosexuality was a sin.

Asked Monday if he wished to respond to critics who have called him a bigot, he replied: “Hateful lies don’t deserve the dignity of a response.”

For his part, Gill said he derives no pleasure from engaging in clashes with elected officials.

“I would like politics to be boring again,” he said.

Moments later, he took to Twitter, writing that he is “eagerly awaiting to find out how the @OntarioPCParty labels my NON-CRIMINAL call to protest.”

“I guess #swatting a private individual is okay in Ford Nation. Who’s available for a protest?”

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