B.C. Conservative leader names shadow cabinet, gives job to controversial member

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has assigned jobs to 41 of his 44-member caucus, including giving a critic’s position to MLA Brent Chapman, who faced calls to step down during the campaign over controversial social media remarks.Several groups called on Rustad during last month’s election to remove Chapman as his party’s candidate over the posts, including one in which he called Palestinian children “inbred walking, talking, breathing time bombs.”Rustad said during the campaign that it would be up to voters to judge his party’s candidates and Chapman, who apologized for the remarks, was elected in the riding of Surrey South.