RICHMOND 鈥� Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he's worried about the message 小蓝视频 sent to children after a Saskatchewan legislature member and former teacher called him a terrorist.
Speaking to reporters in Richmond, B.C., Singh said he didn't care personally about the comment but questioned why Saskatchewan Party 小蓝视频 Racquel Hilbert would even say such a thing.
"This is an 小蓝视频, someone who's an elected official, respected member of their community, a former teacher," Singh said on the federal election campaign trail Wednesday. "What's happened in this 小蓝视频's life for them to say that about me?
"Why would they lie in that way?"
Hilbert, the 小蓝视频 for Humboldt-Watrous, made the remarks during a budget debate in the legislature on March 25. She told the house the Saskatchewan Party government has worked to build trade relations and open new markets.
But she added it's been "more difficult due to challenges presented by the federal government, propped up by the federal NDP, (a) federal NDP supported by this Opposition."
鈥淲e did not hear the Opposition denounce their federal leader as 小蓝视频 a terrorist in India and denounce the collateral trade damage to Western Canada," Hilbert said.
Hilbert later went on to accuse the NDP of unhelpful 鈥渧irtue signalling.鈥�
At the end of her speech, house Speaker Todd Goudy told Hilbert, 鈥淚 just want to caution the member on some of the accusations there 鈥� virtue signalling and others. Just please be careful with your comments.鈥�
Hilbert addressed the issue in the house on Wednesday.
"During my budget response speech, I made an inappropriate comment regarding the federal NDP leader," she said.
"I wish to apologize and withdraw my comment."
Saskatchewan Opposition NDP 小蓝视频 Tajinder Grewal, in a statement, said Hilbert鈥檚 comments were an attack on the Sikh community.
"Saskatchewan's motto is 'From Many Peoples, Strength,'" he said. "Racism has no place in our province and certainly no place in the provincial government."
-- By Aaron Sousa in Edmonton
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 9, 2025.
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