Jasper, AB – Monika Schaefer,
who stood as the Green Party of Canada’s candidate in the Alberta riding of
Yellowhead in 2006, 2008 and 2011, is denying the Holocaust in a homemade
Youtube video.
Schaefer
has also taken credit for convincing Green Party Leader
Elizabeth May to submit a 9/11 conspiracy petition to Parliament in 2014.
In
the YouTube video, Schaefer describes the Holocaust as “the most persistent lie
in all of history,” claims that victims of Nazi death camps “were kept as
healthy and as well-fed as was possible,” and asserts that “there were no gas
chambers there”. She concludes by denouncing “the 6-million lie” and
recommending that viewers read the works of Ernst Zündel, a German Holocaust
denier deported from Canada in 2005.
B’nai
Brith Canada tried to reach the Green Party to relay concerns but calls from
the organization were neither answered nor returned.
“The
lies spouted by Schaefer in this video are disgusting, and deeply offensive to
Holocaust survivors, the Jewish Community, and Canadian values in general,”
said Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada. “The Green Party must denounce
Schaefer and distance itself from all Holocaust-denying groups and individuals.
B’nai Brith has filed a report with YouTube concerning the Holocaust-denying
channel on which Schaefer’s video was posted, and hope to see it shut down.”
