MP says he was 'pushed' by a Parliament Hill protester

A Liberal MP says he was pushed by one of the protesters who have been gathering on Parliament Hill for the first week of the fall sitting.

Several MPs say they have been harassed throughout the week by protesters who have been shouting and calling politicians and their staff «traitors.»

Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed told CBC Radio's that one of the protesters shoved him as he was leaving Parliament Hill earlier this week.

«A group surrounded us and started yelling profanities and obscenities, saying some pretty awful things,» Noormohamed told host Catherine Cullen in an interview airing Saturday.

«One of them literally put two hands on me and pushed me out of the way.»

Noormohamed said the Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS) restrained the woman he said had pushed him. But he said she later continued to follow him down the street, yelling.

Earlier in the week, NDP Jagmeet Singh confronted two of the protesters after someone accused him of being a «corrupted bastard.» The incident took place just outside the doors of West Block as PPS officers looked on.

The PPS says it has stepped up security measures in the wake of that incident. But one Liberal MP said she's worries it won't be enough.

Pam Damoff, parliamentary secretary to the minister of foreign affairs for consular affairs, asked Sergeant-at-Arms Patrick McDonnell in a letter on Wednesday to boost security even more.

«I feel unsafe, and I am worried that someone is going to be seriously injured,»Damoff said in the letter, which was obtained by CBC News.

Lori Idlout, the NDP MP for Nunavut, told that she also was confronted by the protesters and at one point was called a «Nazi.»

«I didn't take it seriously knowing that there are Indigenous people's lives that are at more