Former spokesman of B.C. anti-immigration group wants UBC history prof fired

The ousted director of a B.C. anti-immigration group has launched a campaign attempting to get a well-known UBC history professor fired.

Bradley Saltzberg recently was dismissed as spokesman for the group Putting Canada First, an organization which has advocated against Chinese language signs in Richmond and West Vancouver.

Putting Canada First distanced itself from Saltzberg after an expose article by the South China Morning Post, which alleged Saltzberg had used aliases while attacking Vancouver mayoral candidate Meena Wong. According to the South China Morning Post, Putting Canada First’s chairman Paul Bentley said Saltzberg had harmed the group with deception and “inappropriate inclusion of race in his discussions.”

Saltzberg’s stream of press releases arguing against the influence of Chinese culture and Chinese-Canadian figures in B.C. is widely emailed to Lower Mainland media and politicians. In the run-up to elections in Vancouver, Saltzberg singled out Meena Wong and Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow, writing: “Do voters really want two pro-multicultural, ethnocentric candidates running our largest cities? I don’t and from my direct experience, neither do most Canadians of European origin.”

Saltzberg’s latest public target is UBC history professor Dr. Henry Yu...