Arabnews24.ca:Wednesday 18 May 2022 06:47 PM: The Conservative Party of Canada says it's investigating a complaint from the Patrick Brown campaign about a racist email which expressed support for Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner, co-chair of Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown's campaign for the Conservative leadership, posted the text of the email Wednesday on her Twitter account.
In it, the sender expresses support for Hitler and Nazism and makes hateful and racist remarks about a number of ethnic groups. The sender goes on to say they support Pierre Poilievre, a Conservative MP who is one of Brown's rivals in the Conservative leadership campaign.
—https://twitter.com/MichelleRempel/status/1527006649059254273Rempel Garner said the message was sent to the Brown campaign after the campaign sent en email denouncing the "white replacement" conspiracy theory, which has been a source of tension in the leadership race since a shooter killed 10 Black people in Buffalo, N.Y. last weekend.
She added the Brown campaign had confirmed the message came from an active Conservative Party member.
"The campaign has forwarded this email to the party's Executive Director and have asked that this membership be revoked. We expect all campaigns will support this call," Rempel Garner said in a follow-up tweet.
"No person who holds these vile beliefs should have a home in the Conservative Party of Canada."
In a tweet, the Conservative Party said it will investigate the complaint under the party's Membership Revocation Bylaw.
—https://twitter.com/CPC_HQ/status/1527027005501460480"The Conservative Party of Canada condemns racism in all its forms. We take any and all allegations of racism seriously," the party said in a tweet.
In a statement sent to CBC News, Poilievre denounced racism.
"I reject all racism. If you are a racist, I don't want your vote. Anyone promoting racism has no place in our party and should lose their membership," he said.