The mayor of a southern Ontario city and five out of six municipal councillors are condemning the last member of the group for appearing on an online show they say promotes hate speech and extremist views, arguing her increasingly controversial history has "created an environment of fear and intimidation" on council.
In a scathing press release published on Wednesday, Pickering Mayor Kevin Ashe and the rest of Coun. Lisa Robinson's fellow council members sounded the alarm over her recent appearance on the Kevin J. Johnston show hosted on Rumble, which they call “a far-right video platform.”
They said the show host called the council members "pedophiles" and "Nazis" and said they "deserve a baseball bat to the face" among other pointed remarks, asserting Robinson smiled or nodded instead of refuting Johnston's comments.