VANCOUVER — B.C. Conservatives Leader John Rustad says it will be up to voters to judge his party's candidates as he stood by a pair whose remarks on Indigenous and Muslim people drew condemnation from election rivals and other critics.
VANCOUVER — B.C. Conservatives Leader John Rustad says it will be up to voters to judge his party's candidates as he stood by a pair whose remarks on Indigenous and Muslim people drew condemnation from election rivals and other critics.
“We have candidates who have said a number of things and represent their ridings, and it will be up to the people in the ridings to elect them," Rustad said. "I believe when people say they want to be First Nations, they want autonomy, they want to be treated on an equal bases, equal footing … with those rights of being a First Nation comes responsibilities," Brodie is seen telling a candidates meeting in the Dunbar neighbourhood on Thursday.
She said that a Conservative government "will work with Indigenous leaders to develop treatment and recovery programs that are available within First Nations communities." Almost 45,000 more people voted than on the first voting day in 2017, when overall turnout went on to reach 61 per cent, the highest in almost two decades.
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