Selina Robinson is stepping down as B.C.’s minister of advanced education and higher learning after calling Gaza a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it.”
Premier David Eby announced the decision at a news conference in Vancouver on Monday (Feb. 5), saying Robinson will remain in caucus but will no longer have a cabinet role. Robinson serves as MLA for the riding of Coquitlam-Maillardville, but had previously decided she would not be running again in the next election, set for October.
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