A Woman Says A Conservative MP Angrily Kicked Her Door After Not Getting Her Vote

An incident report has been filed with Elections Canada. Bob Dechert's campaign office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

A Mississauga woman is accusing two-term Conservative MP Bob Dechert of aggressive and threatening behaviour after she told him that she won’t be voting for him on election day.

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Saadia Mohamoud, 65, tells BuzzFeed Canada that Dechert knocked on her door to ask for her support during a canvassing session last week. Mohamoud told him he would not be getting her support because he did not help her obtain a visa for her mother.

At that point, Mohamoud says Dechert started shouting at her, she asked him to leave her property, and she shut her door. The incumbent Tory MP then rang her doorbell repeatedly and angrily kicked her front door before leaving, according to Mohamoud.

“He should have just walked away,” says Mohamoud, a social services worker. “Instead, he kicked my front door.”

Dechert's campaign office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Mohamoud reported the incident to a local Elections Canada office on Saturday. She met with returning officer Louis Girard, who tells BuzzFeed Canada that an incident report has been filed.

"I immediately filed an incident report and escalated the matter to our Elections Canada Headquarters, which is about all I can do at this stage," Girard says, noting that "the matter is indeed very serious."

Mohamoud also met with Peel Regional Police, but has not filed a formal complaint.

A Somali-Canadian mother of four, Mohamoud says she visited Dechert’s Ottawa office three times in 2008 to ask for help obtaining a visa for her mother. She was ultimately unsuccessful in seeing Dechert. That was on her mind when she opened her door.

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“My older sister was dying of cancer and her last wish was to see our mother, but it never happened,” she says.

Mohamoud told Dechert about her experience when he appeared at her doorstep. (She declined to be photographed for this story.)

“I told him that you weren’t there for us when we needed your help, so don’t expect our help now,” Mohamoud says. “And then his face became red and he started shouting ‘How dare you say I don’t help people!’”

At this point, Mohamoud says she became fearful of Dechert’s change in tone and told him to leave. She says she watched through a window as he repeatedly rang the doorbell and then kicked the door.

Mohamoud’s younger sister, Fuad, was also in the house. She tells BuzzFeed Canada she could hear Dechert shouting even though she was in a downstairs bathroom. She went upstairs and says she witnessed him ring the doorbell and kick the door.

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“His shouting was loud enough for me to hear in the basement,” Fuad Mohamoud says. “I rushed upstairs just when she closed the door on him.”

The elder Mohamoud says she reopened her door to tell Dechert yet again to leave, which led to another confrontation.

“I reopened my door maybe three inches and asked him why he was kicking my door and that I could call the cops on him,” she says. “He replied by saying, ‘Go ahead, go ahead and call them now!’”

Dechert then left, according to her.

“I’ve lived in this country for 40 years and I’ve never had anyone behave like that towards me, especially not someone in political office,” Mohamoud says.