A protester who crashed a United Conservative Party (UCP) announcement has social media accounts littered with communist, antifa, and New Democrat Party (NDP) support.
On Wednesday, three protesters stormed a UCP announcement by Pamela Rath, candidate for Calgary-Mountain View. Rath stopped talking while one of the protesters shouted “hospitals are not for sale.”
The UCP announcement was delayed until the protesters were evacuated from the building.
One of the protesters has been identified as Patrick King — a former NDP Candidate.
Another one of the protesters has been identified as Aaron Doncaster, a self-described “libertarian socialist and working class hero.”
Doncaster’s Twitter account retweeted the incident in question but removed the part that showed his face.
His next tweet was a retweet of the NDP account.
Doncaster’s facebook account shows support for Calgary Antifa and communist Fidel Castro, as well as anti-Jason Kenney views. And his instagram account shows a book by Karl Marx.
In 2018, Doncaster was fired from his job from the Hilton Garden Inn & Homewood Suites in Calgary while leading a drive to form a union — which the Alberta Labour Relations Board subsequently certified.
After the disruption on Thursday, Rob Anderson, Executive Director of Premier Smith’s office, confirmed that one of the protesters was a former NDP candidate.
“Confirmation that a NDP federal candidate from last election was part of the threesome that rushed the Premier on stage today,” he tweeted, indicating more information would come.
The NDP condemned the incident, but not before the party deleted a tweet that informed their followers about the location of the UCP announcement that ended up getting crashed by the communists.
Similarly, on Wednesday, a link on the NDP’s website went mysteriously missing, just hours after the UCP filed an election violation complaint that alleged the NDP is being illegally promoted by unions.
