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Sorry B.C. NDP, but the Tories aren’t white supremacists
Progressives try to paint B.C. Conservatives as racist but election roster, polling data suggest otherwise
Canadian progressives have a tendency to lob specious accusations of racism whenever other political talking points have been exhausted, regardless if minority communities actually agree with them. This long-standing habit is now playing out again in B.C., where Premier David Eby and his NDP government are importing American-style culture wars to distract from their own policy failures.
With an election just weeks away, the B.C. NDP and their allies are claiming that the B.C. Conservatives are white supremacists, which is simply partisan nonsense. Not only do both parties have an equally diverse roster of candidates, recent polling data suggests that non-white voters actually prefer the Conservatives over the current government.
Two weeks ago, Government House Leader Ravi Kahlon shared a post on X insinuating that Angelo Isidorou, campaign manager for the B.C. Conservatives, is a white supremacist. The evidence behind this claim amounted to a 2017 photo of Isidorou, taken during his first year of university, wherein he wore a MAGA hat and made an “OK” hand gesture associated with the alt-right.
Kahlon’s message was quickly amplified by Sarbjit Kaur, a panelist from CBC Power and Politics, who said that the B.C. Conservatives are, as a party, defined by white supremacy.
Isodorou, who is biracial and half-Romani, publicly rebuked these accusations as “disgusting,” and wrote that his family consists of “immigrants who were all almost wiped out in the Greco-Armenian genocide” perpetrated by Turks in the 1910s.
