- cross-posted to:
- conservative@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- conservative@sh.itjust.works
Cowichan businesswoman Kristi Koons said she’s alarmed and concerned over the fact that she and another two women were asked to leave a town hall featuring federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on June 10 because of the T-shirts they were wearing.
Koons said she was quiet and respectful at the town hall, which was held at Mellor Hall at the Cowichan Exhibition grounds and attracted more than 1,000 people, before a group of men and RCMP officers approached her and said she was not welcome at the event because of her T-shirt.
Koons’s T-shirt featured half a rainbow pie, with the slogan: “Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
She said after some discussion, the RCMP respectfully asked her to leave the town hall, as well as two other women at the event that were also wearing T-shirts with slogans that some at the event didn’t like.
“I found it alarming,” Koons said.
“I’m an engaged community member and I often sit at (discussion) tables with people that have many points of view. I work hard to try to bridge the gaps and I have big worries these days about where we’re heading, particularly with what’s going on south of the border.”
Canada’s Conservatives think just like US Republicans, and will take Canada down the same path if they’re given enough power. It boggles my mind that so many Canadians can watch what’s happening in the USA and think “I want that here.”
I also like how our centrists have been ineffective as well as theirs, and we can watch in realtime how worthless that stance is when it comes to fighting people who want total submission.
Then again, people also aren’t seeing what’s happening to the south because they’re ignorant.
This is normal for the CPC same thing happened in London Ontario during the last election.
If CPC supporters are contacting her saying this isn’t what this party represents, then they haven’t been paying any attention to what their party has been saying over the last decade. Not that it’s surprising at all, the Reform wing of the CPC simply erased what was left of PC influence in the party over the pandemic. Which is how they’ve been trying to market extreme ideas to moderate voters, by just lying to them.
They need to pick better leaders for their movement if the current leadership is doing things they oppose.
Or they could choose to stop supporting the party that regularly says and does things they don’t agree with.
Remember all the US Republicans who said “this isn’t us” and then supported it anyway? I don’t trust these people as long as they continue to identify as Conservative voters. All it means is they know fascism is shameful, but they still want it.