A green activist has thrown a handful of pumpkin seeds at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said the woman shoved past reporters and threw the seeds at Trudeau in Hamilton on Friday before police wrestled her to the ground. Trudeau, who appeared unharmed, was hustled into his car.
The woman later told the CBC she was protesting about plans to expand an Enbridge Inc oil pipeline that runs through Hamilton, a city abiout 80km southwest of Toronto.
"I did it because I care, and I didn't know how else to get my point across," said the woman, who identified herself as Ute Schmid-Jones.
The CBC said Hamilton police had released her without charge.
Trudeau's Liberal government is under increasing pressure from environmentalists to block major pipeline projects by Enbridge, Kinder Morgan Inc and TransCanada Corp.
