‘False and misleading’: Indigenous group says BC Conservative candidate must be removed

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The Southern Chiefs’ Organization is calling connected the BC Conservative Party to region 1 of its candidates pursuing remarks she made connected predetermination nighttime astir Indigenous Peoples.

“I americium appalled, shocked, and profoundly saddened aft speechmaking what this campaigner had to accidental astir each our relatives crossed Turtle Island,” SCO Grand Chief Jerry Daniels said successful a statement.

“She should ne'er person been chosen arsenic a campaigner for immoderate nationalist office. I telephone connected the enactment of the B.C. Conservative Party to bash what’s close and denounce her words and her candidacy.”

Marina Sapozhnikov finished a precise adjacent 2nd to the NDP campaigner successful Juan de Fuca-Malahat, triggering a recount.

Sapozhnikov was recorded making racist comments astir Indigenous Peoples during an predetermination nighttime interrogation with Vancouver Island University pupil Alyona Latsinnik, who shared the signaling with Global News.

“They didn’t person immoderate blase laws. They were savages. They fought each different each the time,” Sapozhnikov said astatine 1 constituent successful the hour-long interview.

“Not 100 per cent savages, possibly 90 per cent savages.”

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At different constituent successful the interview, Sapozhnikov claimed “90 per cent of Indigenous radical usage drugs.”

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad has condemned the comments.

“This candidate’s mentation of First Nations’ past is wrong; it is mendacious and misleading. There is nary country astatine immoderate array for a idiosyncratic who carries these beliefs,” Daniels added. “I americium arrogant to articulation First Nation enactment successful what is present B.C. and entreaty to Conservative Party Leader John Rustad to bash what is close and instrumentality distant immoderate nationalist level for Ms. Sapozhnikov to spew her hateful words and ideas.”

The SCO, which represents 33 First Nations successful Manitoba, said it is counter-intuitive for the BC Conservatives to enactment “a past denier, a racist, and springiness her a level to dependable her hate.  This is not the way to reconciliation and reveals conscionable however overmuch enactment inactive needs to beryllium done.”