Former Conservative MP Michelle Ferreri said the Sept. 10 assassination of American political influencer Charlie Kirk was a wake-up call that radicalism shouldn’t be allowed to run rampant, calling the moment a “turning point.”
Ferreri’s remarks came Sept. 19 at the grassroots, right-leaning 2025 Reclaiming Conference organized by the group We Unify in Calgary.
“The irony of Charlie Kirk’s assassination is that it truly is the turning point, and I genuinely believe, whether it’s a coping mechanism or not, I genuinely believe that the majority, the majority of people, mourn and grieve public assassinations,” Ferreri said.
“I think that if we let the radicals take up the space, we let them win. But I want to leave you with this, don’t become the thing that they say we are. Don’t become the thing we hate about them.”…