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What is to be done with Sam Oosterhoff? Ontario’s youngest-ever MPP, 23 years old, twice elected with a majority of votes in Niagara West, parliamentary secretary to the education minister and as unabashed a social-conservative as you’ll find hereabouts, is once again causing Premier Doug Ford headaches.
Last time, in October, it was a mass maskless photo-op at a Niagara Falls restaurant, whose owner claimed Oosterhoff’s group repeatedly refused staff requests to follow the pandemic-era rules. “Hey, guys, everyone makes mistakes,” was Ford’s remarkably blasé response. But this time it involves the Holocaust, so blasé isn’t really an option.
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TORONTO An Ontario MPP is facing criticism after agreeing to speak at an event organized by a group that makes a comparison between abortion and the Holocaust. The event, called “Gen Z: Challenging abortion in politics,” is being billed as an evening with Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff. It’s being hosted by student groups at three Ontario universities in collaboration with the with National Campus Life Network (NCLN), an organization whose goal is to lower abortion rates in Canada, with a specific focus on young people. In a social media post advertising the event, Oosterhoof is described as a “pro-life badass” who will be speaking to students about being “a young pro-lifer in politics.”