Laura Kaminker, NDP candidate for Mississauga Centre. YouTube
Laura Kaminker is the NDP candidate for Mississauga Centre.
Kaminker is a self-described “Marxist” who in a 2014 blog post
said she refuses to wear the “fake poppy” and describes Remembrance Day as “war glorification.”
“I just wear my peace button on my jacket as always, and wait for the collective brainwashing to blow over. When our masters give the signal, everyone can take off the fake poppy – made with prison labour – and create a bit more landfill. And another annual ritual of war glorification comes to a close,” she wrote.
Neither Kaminker nor Horwath apologized for the post, which the NDP leader defended as free speech.
Kaminker also appears to be 9/11 conspiracy theorist, having suggested there’s “no proof that bin Laden or al-Qaida had anything to do with the attacks” on New York City in 2001 and disparaged the annual remembrance of the terror attack that killed almost 3,000 people.
“All of you fixating on this one event, the whole world expected to stand in hushed silence because a bad thing happened to Americans,” she wrote.