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BC Conservative leader regrets getting COVID shots, says mandates were about control | 'I’ve had three shots of the vaccine. I wish I hadn’t, quite frankly,' B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad said in a recently resurfaced video.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bc-conservative-leader-regrets-getting-covid-shots-says-mandates-were-about-control/

... “I’ve had three shots of the vaccine. I wish I hadn’t, quite frankly,” Rustad said.

“That’s one of the things that has changed in my thinking. The so-called vaccine, the COVID mRNA shots,” he said, recalling a conversation with B.C. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry.

Rustad said the conversation with Henry left him feeling that something wasn’t “quite right.”

“When I talked to Bonnie Henry about it, I started to realize that it wasn’t so much about trying to get herd immunity or trying to stop the spread, but it was more around shaping opinion and control on the population,” Rustad said.

Note that the last election in British Columbia was in October of 2020, during the whole "Covid" lockdown thing. That election saw the New Democratic Party (NDP, socialists) returned to form a majority government (55 seats) with the BC United Party (centrist, 20 seats) forming the Opposition. The BC Conservative Party has 8 seats, the Greens have 2, and there are 2 Independents.

But this Rustad fellow is more important than he would seem.

On August 28, 2024, BC United announced the party is suspending its campaign for the October 19, 2024 election, has formally endorsed the BC Conservatives, and will merge their campaigns.

So although Rustad was not a decision maker during Covid, should the BC Conservatives win in October, he may become Premier. If so, he sounds like he would make a good one:

... While Rustad’s comments condemning Henry were made during a July 23 interview with the B.C. Public Service Employees for Freedom which opposes vaccine mandates, the resurfacing of the footage by the NDP ahead of the provincial election this fall seems to suggest the far-left party assumed Rustad’s comments would paint him in a bad light.

However, the video seems to have had the opposite effect, as many online pointed to the video as a reason to vote for Rustad.

A reconing for the "public health authorites" like Bonnie Henry may be in the works in BC.