Selina Robinson
Canadian politician
Selina Mae Robinson (née Dardick; born 1964) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in the 2013 British Columbia general election. She represents the electoral district of Coquitlam-Maillardville as an Independent. She previously served in the cabinet of British Columbia between 2017 and 2024 as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP).
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edit- We know that it is 18-to-34-year-olds that have no idea about the Holocaust, they don’t even think that it happened. They don’t even understand that Israel was offered to the Jews who were misplaced, displaced, so they have no connection to how it started.
They don’t understand that it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it – you know, there were several hundred thousand people but other than that, it didn’t produce an economy. It couldn’t grow things it didn’t have anything on it, and that it was the folks that were displaced that came and had been living there for generations and together they worked hard ...- Selina Robinson under fire for calling Israel ‘a crappy piece of land’ (The Chilliwack Progress Feb 1, 2024)
- I was a Cabinet minister in B.C.’s New Democratic Party government earlier this year when I made an impolitic remark about the quality of the land on which Israel was founded.
- acording to Selina Robinson: Premier Eby repeatedly assured me he would have my back. That lasted four days (Published Oct 12, 2024)
- ‘’“This is an excerpt from Selina Robinson’s memoir, Truth Be Told, which will be self-published on Nov. 21
