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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO May 26, 2022 12:31pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, May 26, 2022 06:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Since announcing my intention to run in this upcoming provincial election, I understood that I would likely experience some of the violence I have experienced previously simply by existing in the world as an Indigenous woman. I did not know how brazen some of this targeted harassment would be, however.
As some may know, the Ontario Liberal Party chose not to proceed with vetting my application to be their candidate. I provided a comprehensive file of materials that would be of interest to the party during this process – the exact same materials, plus more, that I provided to the Law Society of Ontario and the Law Society of Alberta in order to be called to the bar in each province (I am a fully licensed member of each bar now). Apparently, my disclosures were too voluminous, among other things, specifically referencing my over 200,000 social media posts, which is likely a reference to my Twitter. That same Twitter account has over 19,000 followers, with over 408,000 profile visits and over 1.77 million tweet impressions (accounts who engaged with my tweets) over the last 28 days as of Sunday, May 22. I decided to continue with my political candidacy as an independent because people in my riding are upset with being ignored, silenced and dismissed by politics down in Toronto, where our legislature sits. Most policy that comes out of Toronto also impacts larger urban centres, leaving smaller ridings like Sault Ste Marie feeling unheard, if not excluded from policy decisions.
Immediately after it was clear that I was not going to receive the support of a political party, accounts online began to cite defamatory articles discussing my tweets as some of the reasons. That would be speculation at best and at worst continuing the harassment because I was not given any specific reasons and I did not waste my time inquiring with that political party. I moved onward. |
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