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Last Updated: Feb. 8, 2024 4:27PMSelina Robinson speaks during a press conference in Vancouver on Thursday, July 20, 2023.Robinson recently stepped down as the Minister of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills after she called historic Palestine a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it”The panel discussion was held on Jan. 30, then the comments were circulated on Twitter on Feb. 1. On Feb. 2 she made her first apology for the comments on Twitter.
The morning of Feb. 5, Robinson made her second apology, then by the afternoon David Eby, B.C.’s premier announcedSince her stepping down from cabinet, her office has been vandalized, which Eby criticized as “hateful.”“Selina Robinson recently received a death threat. Hatred and violence are completely unacceptable in BC,”“There is no excuse, ever. She is safe and the police are investigating to find the person responsible.
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