Video shows B.C. Conservative Rustad saying he regrets getting 'so-called vaccine'
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The NDP has shared a video of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad saying he regrets getting the "so-called vaccine" against COVID-19.
The NDP has shared a video of B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad saying he regrets getting the "so-called vaccine" against COVID-19.
The video shows Rustad directly addressing a camera and saying vaccine mandates were "not so much" about achieving herd immunity or stopping the spread of the disease as they were about "shaping opinion and control of the population."
The video, shared by the NDP on Day 3 of British Columbia's provincial election, is an edited version of longer footage posted online by the BC Public Service Employees for Freedom, a group of former workers who believe they were discriminated against for not getting vaccinated.
The group says the conversation with Rustad took place on June 14 in an online meeting with its members.
Rustad wouldn't comment directly on the video at a campaign event in Surrey, but said the previous inability of unvaccinated doctors and nurses to get their jobs back in B.C. was a "horrendous problem."
The governing NDP lifted the vaccine mandate for health workers in July.
NDP Leader David Eby said of the video that Rustad was "promoting the idea that vaccines don’t work when in fact, the COVID vaccines saved so many lives in this province."
