Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has released his shadow cabinet — and woke Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner isn’t on the list.
Rempel Garner was Patrick Brown’s campaign chair in the federal Conservative party leadership race Poilievre won.
She stepped down from that role amid speculation she would run for the Alberta premiership. Shortly after, Brown was disqualified from the race over cheating allegations.
Under former Conservative leaders Erin O’Toole and Andrew Scheer, the MP held positions of prestige. She was O’Toole’s health critic, a key role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rempel Garner was Scheer’s immigration shadow minister.
But Rempel Garner has drawn ire from her conservative colleagues for her woke views.
After a May 10 shooting in Buffalo in which ten people were killed by a man who believes non-whites are replacing white people, Rempel Garner wrote an op-ed arguing that more must be done to combat racist theories in Canada.
That same day, she attacked the Poilievre campaign for a racist email sent to the Brown campaign from an alleged Poilievre supporter.
But this all pales compared to the time the Calgary-Nose Hill MP apologized for being white.
“Yes. I humble myself and ask forgiveness, and seek to make things right,” she wrote in a tweet last year.
“I have privilege; I am cis/straight/white. But I am also a woman who works in a system dominated by white maleness. But no excuses. I will do what I can. That is all I can do, but it is much.”
Hilariously, Rempel Garner recently called out the Liberals to “stop with the woke shit.”
Poilievre is calling his new team the “inflation-busting Conservative Shadow Cabinet.”
“I am proud to announce our hard-working and strong team that will take on Trudeau and his costly coalition and their plans to continue to cripple the Canadian economy and make life more costly for Canadians,” he said in a statement.
“Together with this team, Conservatives will take on Justinflation, fight all of Trudeau and his costly coalition’s tax hikes – including his plans to triple the expensive carbon tax – and tackle the cost-of-living crisis so that young people can buy a home, families can afford nutritious food, and our seniors can retire with dignity.
