Former Ontario Conservative MPP and current independent, Randy Hillier, has been suspended from a major social media website.
Twitter has suspended Hillier’s account – the message simply says “Account suspended. Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.”
The controversial MPP constantly shared misinformation in regards to COVID-19, its mandates and other subjects.
Hillier is currently the MPP for the riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston.
In a 20 minute video posted to his Facebook and Twitter pages last week, Hillier announced he would not be seeking re-election, ending a 15-year run in provincial politics.
“Our political system is broken. There is no sense spending any more time trying to fix a broken system from within when the problem lies without,” Hillier said in the video.
Hillier was originally elected to the Progressive Conservative party in 2007 but was removed in 2019 by Premier Doug Ford for making disrespectful comments to parents of children with autism.
Following that, he moved to serve as an independent.
In April 2021 Hillier was charged under the reopening act with attending a gathering outside pandemic restrictions in Kemptville, Ont. More recently, he called Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a terrorist over the federal government’s reaction to the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa.
Global News has reached out to Hillier for comment but had not received a response by the time of publishing.
– with files from Aryn Strickland