Former B.C. NDP cabinet minister Selina Robinson recently released a self-published memoir titled “Truth be Told.”
In the book, Robinson, who served more than a decade as an NDP MLA for Coquitlam-Mallardville, opens up about her highly public resignation from her role as minister of post-secondary education earlier this year.
“There were certainly challenges that I was experiencing, in our government,” Robinson told CTV News. “And that really wasn’t part of the story that got told with my firing. And I felt that that needed to be told.”
Robinson came under scrutiny in February 2024 after commenting in an online forum via Zoom that Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land.”
Pro-Palestinian groups pressured the NDP government to take action and Robinson says she was eventually forced by B.C. Premier David Eby to resign.
“He called and he said, ‘I see no way forward,’” said Robinson. “And I said, I don’t know what that means. And he kept repeating, …