Ejected MLA says Opposition Leader Rustad selling B.C. to ‘elite racial minority’

By Marcy Nicholson The B.C. Conservatives’ former attorney general critic has lashed out at leader John Rustad, suggesting he and Premier David Eby are beholden to “an elite racial minority” after she was ejected from the Opposition caucus in a row over residential schools. Dallas Brodie was dumped by Rustad on Friday, the day after a showdown in the Conservative caucus room in which Rustad said Brodie challenged colleagues to fire her and asked for a vote on her removal before walking out. “The truth is a threat to powerful vested interests in the multi-billion-dollar reconciliation industry,” Brodie said in a statement later on Friday. “Politicians like David Eby and John Rustad are willing to sell off British Columbia’s wealth and power, transferring it from the public to an elite…

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