PPC candidate denounced for 'harmful and repugnant' comparison of vaccine cards to residential schools
CBC
The B.C. Assembly of First Nations is calling for the People's Party of Canada to remove a Vancouver candidate who has distributed a pamphlet comparing the horrors of residential schools to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The front of Vancouver Quadra candidate Renate Siekmann's flyer shows an image of Indigenous students at a residential school, along with the slogan "Discrimination is wrong. No vaccine passport."
The BCAFN described that juxtaposition as an offensive false equivalence, and called on PPC leader Maxime Bernier to denounce Siekmann and remove her from the party's slate.
"As First Nations, entire generations of our peoples were stolen from their families and communities. They were tortured, physically and sexually abused, and murdered. They lost their languages and cultures, and thousands of our precious children never came home, " BCAFN Regional Chief Terry Teegee said in a statement.
"Claiming that a public health measure, such as a vaccine passport, is somehow comparable or equivalent to violent and genocidal practices is harmful and repugnant."
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