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Candidates for Vancouver Municipal Party Say They Attended Multiple Events with Conspiratorial Far-Right Groups By Accident
Two candidates for ‘TEAM Vancouver’ in upcoming by-election appeared at event with far-right groups

by Rumneek Johal, Reporter
March 24, 2025

A Vancouver municipal party running two candidates in an upcoming by-election for Vancouver city council say their appearance at multiple events organized by conspiratorial far-right groups over the span of two years was just an accident.

TEAM for a Livable Vancouver, a municipal party that splintered off from the now-defunct right-wing Non-Partisan Association (NPA), is running two candidates in the upcoming by-election – Colleen Hardwick and Theodore Abbott.

“I went to the town hall to support my grandma who was speaking at the event,” Abbott told PressProgress. “I have zero ties with any convoy-affiliated groups and any suggestion otherwise is simply a misrepresentation of the truth.”

At the BC Rising event, Brian Palmquist, a Vancouver-based architect spoke about housing as a panelist and said he was attending the event as a representative for TEAM.

During a Q&A, Abbott asked the panelists a question about the various provincial acts being discussed at the town hall relating to public health being controlled by tyrants.

In a clip from the town hall, Abbott inquires about the presence of “unelected bureaucrats,” who he believes are present at the municipal level, and whether or not they will also be involved at the provincial level as part of a “tyrannical power grab.”

https://pressprogress.ca/candidates-for-...piratorial-far-right-groups-by-accident/