B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is facing calls to denounce the statement by a caucus staffer who called the Survivors' flag — which honours residential school survivors — a "disgrace" and a "fake flag."
On Thursday, several NDP, Conservative and Green MLAs raised the Survivors' flag on the front steps of the legislature in Victoria, ahead of National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.
The next day, Lindsay Shepherd, a communications staffer for the B.C. Conservative caucus, wrote on social media: "The Orange Shirt and the Orange Flag perpetuate untruths about Canadian history, such as the grandest lie of all that 215 children's graves were unearthed in Kamloops.
"It is a disgrace that this fake flag flies in front of the provincial parliament buildings, and it is a disgrace to see th
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