OTTAWA-
Conservative Party leadership candidate Scott Aitchison calls out a contender in the race for sending an email last week about the Nuremberg Code and medical experimentation.
Although Leslyn Lewis didn’t mention COVID-19 or vaccination mandates, Aitchison told members in his own missive today that he’s heard from Canadians who are “appalled” by the comparison drawn between the issues. contemporaries and the Holocaust.
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research guidelines established after World War II, where Nazi doctors conducted inhumane experiments on prisoners.
Aitchison says some opposed to COVID-19 vaccinations have begun comparing warrants to get one to the horrors of Nazi Germany.
He says Leslyn’s email was a “dog whistle to these people so loud it’s more like the horn of a freight train”.
Aitchison, who like Lewis is a sitting MP for the Tories, says the party needs to show it would provide better government than the Liberals, who recently cut ties with a group doing anti-racism work after the discovery of an anti-Semitic tweet from one of his advisers.
This report from The Canadian Press was first published on August 25, 2022