Stefan Marquis — who was running for the Conservatives in the Montreal riding of Laurier—Sainte-Marie, held by Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault since 2019 — wrote in a post on social media that he is no longer a candidate for the party.
“In a call received this morning from one of Quebec’s operations managers for the party, I was told without further note that ‘certain’ individuals within the party had consulted my recent posts on Twitter-X and deemed these sufficient reason to end our political collaboration,” Marquis wrote on X, along with a cartoon image of a hand pressing a button on a person’s head to get them to speak. “The call lasted less than a minute.”
Recent social media posts by Marquis promote popular right-wing conspiracy theories, including that Bill Gates is trying to manipulate public health for profit through vaccines, and that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “provoked” by the expansion of NATO.
Ok, I absolutely hate the conservatives in Canada. But the expansion of NATO was absolutely a factor in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (just not the only one) and Bill Gates went around to universities working on the COVID vaccine for free and convinced them to sell it for profit. He’s been anti shareware since forever. These aren’t far right conspiracy theories. Unless I’m missing something here.
I think the paragraph just after that was more relevant.