The British Columbia chiropractor, first elected as a member of Parliament in 2000, has jumped into a fray that started last week in the Ontario Legislature.
Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Rick Nicholls, who represents the province’s Chatham-Kent-Essex riding, was heckling the provincial education minister on Wednesday when the matter of human origins came up.
Interim Ontario PC Leader Jim Wilson was quick to distance himself from Nicholls’s anti-evolution views, saying “it obviously didn’t help our position.”
Ontario PC house leader Steve Clark and leadership candidate Christine Elliott also disowned the remarks.
In a 2004 speech in the House of Commons, Lunney cited figures he said showed a tenfold increase in the incidence of autism and said Canada should explore a link to vaccines.
But a widespread belief in such a link is thought to explain a decline in childhood vaccination that has permitted the resurgence of once-vanquished diseases such as measles.
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This is a 9 year old article about a guy who isn’t in politics anymore. Still crazy and all, but this was in 2015.
Derp, you are correct. It popped up in my Mastodon feed and I neglected to look at the publication date.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The British Columbia chiropractor, first elected as a member of Parliament in 2000, has jumped into a fray that started last week in the Ontario Legislature.
Ontario Progressive Conservative MPP Rick Nicholls, who represents the province’s Chatham-Kent-Essex riding, was heckling the provincial education minister on Wednesday when the matter of human origins came up.
Interim Ontario PC Leader Jim Wilson was quick to distance himself from Nicholls’s anti-evolution views, saying “it obviously didn’t help our position.”
Ontario PC house leader Steve Clark and leadership candidate Christine Elliott also disowned the remarks.
In a 2004 speech in the House of Commons, Lunney cited figures he said showed a tenfold increase in the incidence of autism and said Canada should explore a link to vaccines.
But a widespread belief in such a link is thought to explain a decline in childhood vaccination that has permitted the resurgence of once-vanquished diseases such as measles.
The original article contains 485 words, the summary contains 147 words. Saved 70%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!