A screen shot from a video posted to Smith-McCrossin’s Facebook page. Photo: Facebook
The MLA removed from the Tory party after the border blockade says she was bullied out of the caucus.
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, MLA for Cumberland North, was part of a protest against border restrictions in Thomson Station, Cumberland Co. Tuesday evening.
After that ended, a group began what would become a border blockade lasting into Wednesday evening.
Border protest; contributed Lisa Davison.
In a lengthy Facebook post Friday, Smith-McCrossin defended herself.
She says she wasn’t associated with the second protest and asked them to go home early Wednesday.
“The protesters themselves said I wasn’t supportive of their blockade.”
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Smith-McCrossin says she doesn’t share the border protestors anti-vaccine sentiments either.
She says she gave vaccines for 30 years as a registered nurse and volunteered to help give COVID-19 vaccines in Amherst during the pandemic.
“I don’t share the anti-vaccine statements of some of the border blockade protesters,” she says. “I have hounded Iain Rankin’s government for more vaccines for Cumberland County.”
Smith-McCrossin says Progressive Conservative party leader Tim Houston supported her through the protests until a caucus meeting Wednesday evening, when he changed his mind and asked her to apologize.
She says she has nothing to apologize for.
