BC Conservatives drop candidate over Hitler and Holocaust comments The BC Conservatives have dropped candidate Jordan McIntosh after offensive social media posts about Hitler and the Holocaust surfaced. The party also fired candidate Joachim Agou last week over similar posts. A BC Conservative candidate has been dropped after he was accused of posting offensive remarks on social media. The party says Jordan McIntosh is no longer its candidate for Vancouver-Strathcona and that if elected, he will not sit in caucus. The Conservatives announced his removal from the slate less than an hour after Callista Ryan, the NDP candidate for Vancouver-Quilchena, posted about the remarks on social media. Looks like Lorne Doerkson's candidate in Strathcona Jordan McIntosh thought he could use a nameless twitter account to say many awful, offensive things, Ryan said. She said the posts included claims that Hitler didn't specifically hate Jews and that the Holocaust may not have been the goal.Holocaust Remarks Prompt Candidate DropA post under the account @DeathNight771 made claims that Hitler didn't specifically hate Jews and that the Holocaust may not have been the goal. McIntosh is 18 years old and the party says it appears the posts were made when he was 15. McIntosh is a university student working toward a BA in geological engineering, according to his biography, which has since been removed from the party's website. His LinkedIn page says he attends the University of Waterloo in Ontario.A party spokesperson speaking on background says McIntosh was informed he was no longer a candidate shortly after Ryan's social media post. Amanda Burrows, who has served as director for First United in the Downtown Eastside, is the NDP's candidate in that riding. It's considered one of the safest NDP seats in the province. This is the second time the BC Conservatives have dropped a candidate over offensive social media posts.Last week, the party fired Joachim Agou in light of social media posts targeting Palestinians and Pakistanis that came to light. Agou was running for the Conservatives in the Victoria-Beacon Hill riding before the BC NDP highlighted some of his past offensive social media posts. Doerkson has also faced calls from the Unified Muslim Associations of BC to drop Katy Merrifield as the party's campaign director over anti-Islam posts.Campaign Director Faces Anti-Islam BacklashMerrifield posted on X in June in response to a UK inquiry about child sexual exploitation: F--k Islam. Defend Western civilization. The post was later removed. During Wednesday night's BC leaders' debate, Doerkson defended Merrifield, saying she made the comments and has since apologized for them.He says he will not remove her. Katie DeRosa is the provincial affairs reporter for CBC British Columbia. She is based in Victoria. You can contact her at [email protected].