51-year-old charged with making death threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney

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Canada’s federal police force has arrested a 51-year-old man for allegedly making death threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Threats came in an email to a senator, police said

Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Aug 10, 2026 12:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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The RCMP say they began an investigation into the Montreal man last week. (RCMP)

Canada’s federal police force said Monday that they’ve arrested a 51-year-old man for allegedly making death threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Marc-André Porlier, of Montreal, was charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm, an RCMP news release said.

The alleged threats were made in an email sent to a number of unnamed individuals, including a senator, police said in the news release.

The accused also threatened “all Canadian police officers,” according to the charge sheet.

Porlier was previously found guilty of arson and mischief after he set fire to a church in Toronto in 2017, police confirmed to CBC News. He was on probation for those crimes, an RCMP spokesperson said.

Porlier appeared in court on Saturday, the news release said. The charges haven’t been proven in court.

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Darren Major is a senior writer for CBC’s parliamentary bureau in Ottawa. He previously worked as a digital reporter for CBC Ottawa and a producer for CBC’s Power & Politics. He holds a master’s degree in journalism and a bachelor’s degree in public affairs and policy management, both from Carleton University. He also holds a master’s degree in arts from Queen’s University. He can be reached at darren.major@cbc.ca.

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