A former spokesperson for the Conservative Party of B.C. says she has been fired over a social media post in which she called the raising of a flag honouring survivors of Canada’s residential school system a “disgrace.”

Lindsay Shepherd says in a post on the social media platform X that Conservative Leader John Rustad fired her Wednesday over her remark about the raising of the flag at the provincial legislature in Victoria last week.

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs had called on Rustad to fire Shepherd over the post, which was captured in a screenshot and shared by New Democrat MLA Rohini Arora before it was deleted from Shepherd’s profile on X.

Shepherd said in the post that it was a “disgrace that this fake flag flies in the front of the provincial parliament building.”

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