VICTORIA — British Columbia legislator Dallas Brodie, whose OneBC party has removed her as leader, says the split happened after colleagues tried to stop her from firing a caucus staffer whose views on Jewish people were “disgusting” and antisemitic.
Brodie says she wanted the man removed because she is not a “neo-Nazi.”
The person named by Brodie has been accused of being an anonymous online figure who has posted about the hierarchy of races and the “JQ,” an abbreviation of the Jewish question, while Brodie says he also expressed unacceptable views about Jewish people in her presence.
Brodie says her then chief of staff, Tim Thielmann, and party interim executive director Paul Ratchford had hired the person and tried to protect him when she sought his firing last week.
Thielmann says in a social media post that he and Ratchford advised Brodie against firing the staffer, who he calls “a 22-year-old brown kid who was being made out to be a ‘white supremacist'” and they instead wanted to “mentor” him.
The party says Brodie was removed as leader last week, after its only other MLA, Tara Armstrong, said she had lost faith in her leadership.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2025.
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