(CBC) Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party says it won’t take action against one of its candidates in Nova Scotia who called Islam “pure evil” and “not compatible with democracy” in numerous social media posts.
Sybil Hogg, the PPC candidate for Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook, made a series of posts on Twitter and Facebook with anti-Islam statements within the last year.
The posts include a response in March to a 2017 tweet from former Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, sent after the minister visited a mosque just days after the deadly Quebec City mosque attack. Hogg’s response: “Islam is pure evil. Islam has no place in Canadian society.”
Johanne Mennie, executive director of PPC, told CBC News the party reached out to Hogg to “understand the context within which she expressed herself” and the candidate replied that she “failed to draw the distinction between ‘Islam’ the religion and ‘Islamism’ or ‘radical Islam.'”
