Vernon
School trustee (SD 22)
Sylvia Herchen (Parents Voice BC)
❌ not elected
Nellie Villegas (Parents Voice BC)
❌ not elected
Jewlie Milligan (Parents Voice BC)
❌ not elected
From iNFOnews:
‘While Herchen isn’t known within the school system, she is well known as a leading voice in the Vernon anti-vax and anti-mandate group.
Herchen organized one of the very first protests against COVID lockdowns in April 2020 and called health policies “tyranny.”‘
For more:
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This is Parents Voice BC
Parents Voice BC is a social conservative party that shelters anti-SOGI 123 activists, transphobia, religious fundamentalism, the convoy/freedom movement, and COVID-related conspiracy theories. Parents Voice BC is recommended by Action4Canada.
Action4Canada promotes far-right extremism based in religious fundamentalism. From their website: “Our mission is to protect Canada’s rich heritage which is founded on Judeo-Christian biblical principles. Inherited through our British Commonwealth and embedded in the Magna Carta, these principles form our laws and values and are the basis of a system of governance that sets us apart from totalitarian, extremist and communist regimes.” (Others might describe that as “white supremacist-flavoured Christofascism.”) They rally against SOGI education, LGBT2S+ rights, Islam, abortions, climate change science, immigration, and 5G. Action4Canada predates the pandemic, but quickly began rallying against public health mandates, vaccines, and basic medical science.
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