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FIRST READING: Poilievre described a Canadian who fled to Mexico for safety. Here's why

She wouldn't be the first woman to flee Canada to get away from a legally unrestrained attacker

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FIRST READING: Poilievre described a Canadian who fled to Mexico for safety. Here's why Back to video

After Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was questioned for describing an encounter with a Vancouverite who fled to Mexico for safety reasons, the woman has come forward and said she left Canada to get away from an attacker.

“The only way to make myself feel safe was to remove myself and get as far away from the threat as possible,” said Terri Anne Welyki in an episode of The Elevate Report podcast published on Saturday.

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“I feel safer here because the person that attacked me does not live here. That’s just basic common sense. I feel safer because I’m very far away…. It could have been Germany, it........

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