Police in Edmonton are looking for whoever spray-painted a racist comment on an election sign in front of Edmonton-Mill Creek Liberal candidate Aman Gill's campaign office.
Gill spotted the defaced sign after she arrived at her campaign office on Saturday morning. Vandals had written the word "Paki" in black paint beside Gill's name and sketched sexually explicit drawings over her photograph.
"It took me, I would say, at least an hour to overcome that," she said. "I have. I'm still motivated and I'm running out and talking to people. Because this is where my strength is — in people."
Const. Glen Haneman, who inspected the sign, said police are taking this crime very seriously. The hate and bias crimes unit has been called in, he said.
"Hopefully this is just an isolated incident. I thought we were above this type of behaviour," he said.
Gill, 33, came to Canada from India in 1993 and said she has never encountered racism during elections or during everyday life. This is second time she has run for MLA in the Edmonton-Mill Creek riding, hoping to unseat Progressive Conservative incumbent, Gene Zwozdesky.
Albertans go to the polls on March 3.
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