VICTORIA - A B.C. legislator who has sought to scrap the province's Human Rights Code and ban land acknowledgments, and has blamed the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting on "transgender ideology,"
  • Sunshine@piefed.caOPEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Tara Armstrong needs to get kicked out of her seat. The riding deserves much better than a scammer.

  • Sunshine@piefed.caOPEnglish
    4·
    11 days ago

    Armstrong was elected as a B.C. Conservative in October 2024, founded the OneBC party with fellow MLA Dallas Brodie eight months later, then split from Brodie and OneBC in December.

    Now sitting as an Independent, Armstrong unsuccessfully tabled a bill last month to repeal B.C.'s Human Rights Code, which protects against discrimination based on sex, gender, race and disability among other categories.

    That was in response to a $750,000 fine imposed by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against former school trustee Barry Neufeld, in a finding that he violated the code by publishing hate speech against LGBTQ+ people.

    The campaign’s website says a petition application will be filed on April 20. If it’s approved by Elections BC, organizers would have 60 days to collect the necessary 18,000-plus signatures from eligible voters in the riding.

    Elections BC says a recall petition must be signed by more than 40 per cent of the voters who were registered to cast a ballot in the riding in the last election.

    “We have got already a volunteer team of over 100 people, and we have got locations already being offered for signing locations,” he said. “We have got over 50 people offering to be canvassers so far, and we haven’t even got a recall application in yet.”