OTTAWA — A Liberal MP from Toronto has apologized for a tweet sent Saturday morning that many on Twitter took as a threat against Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Adam Vaughan said sorry for tweeting that people should "whack" Ford, hours after defending it as a reference to the game whack-a-mole where players hold a mallet and hit targets — or moles — as they randomly pop up from a board. Before entering federal politics in 2014, Vaughan often took aim at the policies of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, Doug Ford's brother who died in 2016. Vaughan at one point tweeted that he had been contacted by a lawyer "representing the Moles of Ontario," who resented the comparison. "Whack was a reference to whack-a-mole," Vaughan wrote.

Source: Huffington Post February 03, 2019 18:56 UTC