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Brodie Resign invites to »Peaceful Protest: MLA Dallas Brodie Does Not Represent Our Values« at Partey.io (lemmy.ca)

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Sunday at 3:30 PM Location: Arbutus Greenway at 41st Avenue (Intersection of 41st and West Boulevard)

This Sunday, join neighbours in the Vancouver-Quilchena riding to stand up for kindness and honour survivors who have shared the truth of the impacts of the residential school system.

MLA Brodie was kicked out of the Conservative Party Caucus on March 7th after mocking the testimony of residential school survivors. This harmful behaviour would be unacceptable for anyone in Canada and is inexcusable for an elected official. Now that Brodie is an Independent MLA, she cannot effectively represent the interests of our riding. We did not vote for her as an Independent. She should resign so a by-election can be held.

There are moments when we must look around and ask who will speak up. The answer is, we will! We should all speak up when politicians use issues like this to rewrite history for their own benefit and distract from other issues that require attention.

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[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know it's hard, and it takes work and everyone is stressed af.. but you really should if at all possible look into the mla's you vote for to see if they are personally bags of trash before voting for them instead of just voting based on the party they are in.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Normally I'd argue that in our current political system, to state your preference for the policies you want you'd often have to choose the party platform you agree with and base your MLA/MP on that.

But I won't make that argument, because even just the BC Conservative party itself was trash. The fact that she seems to be the trashiest of the trash but every voter in BC who supported them BC Conservatives are guilty of that same lack of oversight. And I'll accept some blame for assuming that people would realize this on their own, and not getting out there to help fight against them.

What's done is done though. And in the here and now, this MLA needs to go.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

My take: if you're too extreme for the extremists who were themselves kicked from the BC Liberals, you've got absolutely no business representing a Vancouver riding.