BC Conservative MLA defies leaders call to remove residential school social media post [Video]

A BC Conservative MLA is standing her ground over social media posts she made over the weekend regarding the language used to describe unmarked graves at former residential schools.

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad has asked Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie to take the posts down, but they remain up.

Over the weekend, Brodie, the BC Conservative attorney general critic, raised concerns about the “apparent mistreatment” of a lawyer who called on the Law Society of BC to change the language in training material to refer to “potential” burial sites at the former residential school in Kamloops, rather than more definitive wording.

In her posts, Brodie said there are “zero” confirmed child burial sites at the school.

“I think the contents of the tweet are really important. The importance of truth and evidence in a legal context is the cornerstone of everything in law,” Brodie said Monday.

“There are wounds there from what happened in the residential schools. There is no …