A protester rushes the stage as Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Vancouver, Board of Trad

A protester rushes the stage as Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Vancouver, Board of Trade in downtown Vancouver, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Vancouver police say they won't be pursuing criminal car rental search engine charges against two climate-change protesters who came within touching distance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a stage at an event in Vancouver.THE car rental search engine CANADIAN car rental search engine PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
VANCOUVER - Two climate-change protesters who disguised themselves as catering staff to climb onto a stage next to Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a Vancouver event won't be facing charges, the city's police force confirmed Tuesday.
The activists — who have publicly identified themselves as Sean Devlin and Shireen car rental search engine Soofi — orchestrated the brief protest on Monday at a downtown hotel, where Harper was fielding questions car rental search engine at an event hosted by the Vancouver Board of Trade.
They were released a short time later, but the incident raised immediate questions about how a pair of activists could get that close to Harper car rental search engine despite the presence of his personal RCMP security detail.
While a police dog went through the equipment of reporters and television camera operators, there appeared to be little outward display of security at the event that would have prevented anyone from walking into the room.
Devlin and Soofi walked onto the stage behind Harper and board of trade CEO Iain Black, who were sitting in lounge chairs for the casual car rental search engine question-and-answer event, before holding up their signs toward the audience.
DePape was immediately fired from her job at the Senate and has since become car rental search engine an activist against the Conservative government. car rental search engine That work has included forming a group with Devlin known as SHD — a profane acronym that roughly translates to Stuff Harper Did.
Devlin said his group had two goals on Monday: to protest the Conservative government's environmental policies, as well as to assert what he described as the public's right to access the prime minister.
"I think part of the reason we felt the need to go into the event was that we find the extent to which this government is really closing itself off — not just from the public, but also from the media — unacceptable in a democratic country," he said.
Harper's swing through the B.C. was briefly interrupted again on Tuesday as about 100 protesters chanted and waved placards outside Brentwood College in Mill Bay, where he was speaking to Conservative party supporters.
A protester rushes the stage as Prime Minister car rental search engine Stephen Harper speaks at the Vancouver, car rental search engine Board of Trade in downtown Vancouver, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Vancouver police say they won't be pursuing criminal charges against two climate-change protesters who came within touching distance of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on a stage at an event in Vancouver.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward       E-mail this Gallery Print this Gallery Share this Gallery
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