The People鈥檚 Party of Canada candidate for Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam has been forced out the party after he received an email from party headquarters stating his candidacy had been revoked.听
Wednesday (Sept. 12), Brian Misera that he had been cut loose by the party two days after he released a series of critical videos denouncing PPC leader Maxime Bernier for not calling out racist 鈥渉uman garbage鈥� within the party鈥檚 ranks.听
鈥淚鈥檝e received some legitimate concerns about the PPC,鈥� he said in one of the videos. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not enough to expunge racist idiots from the party.鈥�
He said door-knocking has been particularly challenging as he has consistently been forced to defend the party鈥檚 racist image.
鈥淵ou should understand how hard it is to canvas and talk to people. I don鈥檛 want to be berated by people who think I鈥檓 an actual nazi,鈥� he said.听
Misera also expressed his frustration with what he characterizes as the party鈥檚 pivot towards climate denial, specifically referring to a Sept. 2 series of tweets in which Bernier targeted teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, calling her 鈥渃learly mentally unstable. Not only autistic, but obsessive compulsive, eating disorder, depression and lethargy, and she lives in a constant state of fear.鈥�
鈥淭his was not part of the platform when he founded the party,鈥�听 Misera said. 鈥淚 would much rather, Maxime, that you stop picking fights with 16-year-old girls who want to save the world in order to push your point of view.鈥�
The Tri-City News asked to speak to a party spokesperson and was connected with North 麻豆传媒映画PPC candidate Azmairnin Jadazji, who confirmed Friday that Misera was ousted from the party.
鈥淥ur party鈥檚 headquarters saw those rantings and rightfully dismissed him as a candidate because he鈥檚 cracking under pressure and does not reflect our positions,鈥� said Jadazji, who says he has become a party spokesperson by default.
Jadazji rejected accusations his party has a problem with racism and when asked whether the PPC has done enough to reject racist ideologies, he said, 鈥淚t鈥檚 a free country. I could walk into a KKK [Ku Klux Klan] meeting if there was one here but it has nothing to do with us.鈥�听
On the issue of climate change, Jadazji was more direct, questioning the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity has made a marked difference to the planet鈥檚 changing climate.
鈥淥ur party is the only one that is not drinking the Kool-Aid on climate change,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e鈥檙e a reasonable, rational Libertarian party. We鈥檙e not wackos.鈥�
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