Marina Sapozhnikov called First Nations 'savages' in an election interview with a Vancouver Island university student
The Okanagan Nation Alliance is calling on B.C. Conservative Party Leader John Rustad to remove Marina Sapozhnikov from the party following racist remarks in an election night interview.
“They didn’t have any sophisticated laws," Sapozhnikov said in an audio clip available on the newspaper's site. "They were savages. They fought each other all the time.”These ignorant and hateful comments, which constitute a form of hate speech, have no place in our society. We call on BC Conservative Leader, John Rustad, to immediately take a clear and strong stand against hate and racism, by removing her from his political party.
Would-be politicians who hold and espouse racist and backward views, should be immediately disqualified by their party leaders, based on the understanding that such views and comments are hateful and hurtful to Indigenous people, and completely undermine any kind of government-to-government relationship between provincial leaders and the Indigenous Nations on whose land and good graces this province depends.
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