Anjou councillor in disgrace
Anjou councillor Lynne Shand is making a name for herself this weekend with a Facebook rant against an emergency doctor who looked after her in hijab. Toula Drimonis has more of her online ranting.
Update: Valérie Plante has schooled Shand on Twitter; Shand maintains she is “realistic” – totally ignoring the distinction between individual choice and institutional endorsement of religious symbols. As they say in French “elle persiste et signe.” Bye-bye, Ms. Shand.
Faiz Imam 15:17 on 2019-03-24 Permalink
@steverukavina: “Anjou borough mayor Luis Miranda tells CBC he finds Shand’s comments “unfortunate”, but that for now he’ll keep her as part of his team and let voters decide”
That’s not good enough. I hope outrage here builds steam because her comments are completely unacceptable.
We need to take a stronger stance and we need to do it fast.
Because if you really believe in the great replacement conspiracy, the only logical end result Is violence, and we have already been too close to that to let it happen again.
Kate 16:03 on 2019-03-24 Permalink
Faiz Imam, from something I read or heard today I don’t think there’s a mechanism in municipal law for dumping a duly elected councillor. But the next municipal election is still pretty far off, so I don’t think Miranda should get to wash his hands so fast. He could at least chuck her out of the Anjou party and make her sit as an independent.
Update: Luis Miranda says it isn’t in his power to fire anyone from Équipe Anjou. That seems odd. A party leader should be able to chuck any member out who openly expresses views incompatible with the party’s principles.
SMD 17:01 on 2019-03-25 Permalink
An online petition calling for her to resign already has over 2,000 signatures: http://www.change.org/p/luis-miranda-démission-de-la-conseillère-lynne-shand-pour-propos-racistes-et-islamophobes.