The pressure is mounting on BC Conservative candidate Brent Chapman as more offensive social media posts have been exposed.
The pressure is mounting on the BC Conservatives after a number of offensive social media posts from a candidate were brought to light. Brent Chapman is running for MLA in Surrey South. As Grace Ke reports, he and his team are avoiding questions from the media.Global News visited Chapman’s office on Tuesday but he did not make himself available for questions. Global News was invited in and was initially told Chapman was there.
Let me be clear, the Quebec Mosque Shooting, Aurora, Orlando, and Sandy Hook were all very real mass shootings — innocent people lost their lives, and we should all mourn these tragedies.Last week, Chapman was forced to apologize after decade-old Facebook posts emerged that showed him making racist comments about Muslims and describing
“I look at the issues really that we brought forward and the actions that are being taken, the actions that I just laid out, for example, by David Eby and what he has done in British Columbia, the actions that have created the drug crisis that we have today that have created the lawlessness that we’re seeing on our streets,” Rustad said.
Rustad said it is up to the people in B.C. to make a decision on whether they elect Chapman or an NDP government.When asked if he would give Chapman a cabinet post, Rustad said he is not going to speculate.
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