Federal politician casts unflattering light on Kelowna’s homeless camp – Okanagan | 24CA News
Sunshine, lakes, golf and wine.
Ask any Western Canadian what the Okanagan is finest recognized for, and most solutions can be these 4 subjects.
However, federal politician Pierre Poilievre despatched out a tweet on Tuesday morning that in contrast a part of the area’s largest metropolis, and its homeless downside, to a third-world nation.
“These images are not from a faraway third-world country,” stated Poilievre, chief of the Conservative Party of Canada. “This is Kelowna.
“After eight years of Trudeau and the NDP.”
The tweet included a 57-second video, taken alongside the Okanagan Rail Trail in Kelowna’s north finish, that includes scores of homeless folks residing in tents.
Poilievre didn’t document the video; fairly, it got here from a TikTok account that has simply 11 movies, all of homeless folks presumably in Kelowna.
Of the account’s first 10 movies, they’d views starting from 972 to five,700. The final video, although, had 167,000 views on Tuesday afternoon.
Poilievre’s tweet was revealed on Tuesday morning. By 3 p.m., it had been retweeted almost 2,500 instances and had 8,100 likes. It additionally had scores upon scores of wildly ranging feedback.
Global News has reached out to the City of Kelowna, the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce and native politicians for remark.
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