Daphne Bramham: B.C. health professions bill hands new weapon to David Eby haters seeking his recall

When Salvatore Vetro launched the campaign to recall Premier David Eby, a good number of people scoffed at it, saying it had little chance of success.

And, at first blush, it doesn’t. Vetro is a former HandyDart driver and actor who ran unsuccessfully in the 2020 provincial election as an independent in Vancouver Kensington.

His address isn’t listed on the recall petition. Instead, mail goes to Rick Dignard in Maple Ridge.

Both Vetro and Dignard are anti-vaxxers and self-described freedom fighters, who are using their social networks to attract an army of the disaffected to canvass in Eby’s Vancouver-Point Grey riding — one of the wealthiest in the province.

At a Jan. 18 rally outside Eby’s constituency office, speakers included a couple of doctors cited by the College of Physicians and Surgeons for spreading misinformation about COVID vaccines and ivermectin as a treatment, truck convoy supporters, climate change deniers and an assortment of others who want to defund the CBC, stop drag queen story hours at libraries and oppose sex education teaching in schools.