Conservative leadership candidates Scott Aitchison and Leslyn Lewis are feuding about the Nuremberg Code and COVID-19 vaccines, after Aitchison sent out an email accusing Lewis of blowing a "dog whistle."."Let me be clear — being offered a vaccine that prevents serious illness and our governments’ responses to this pandemic are not the same as being tortured in a Nazi concentration camp," Aitchison said..On Thursday, Aitchison sent out an email asking why Lewis was talking about the Nuremberg Code.."A small but growing number of people opposed to various COVID response measures have been making the bogus claim that mandates or policies enacted over the past two years are like what took place in Nazi Germany," Aitchison said..According to Aitchison, Lewis' comments were a "dog whistle to these people so loud that it sounds more like a freight train’s horn."."Not only is this wrong, it discredits those who are working hard to see unscientific mandates repealed and engaging in a good-faith debate on how best to protect Canadian lives in response to the COVID pandemic.".Aitchison was referring to a email sent out last week By Lewis' campaign, where she warned about the dangers of unethical human experimentation and urged Canadians to remember the lessons of the Nuremberg Code.."Lest we forget those who suffered under these unconscionable experiments by our failure to defend modern day abuses of any human experiment based on coercion," Lewis said. At no point in the email did she mention COVID-19 vaccines..READ MORE: Lewis speaks about Nuremberg Code, warns of 'reckoning'.In response to Aitchison's Tweet, Lewis said she didn't expect to be called a racist by a fellow leadership candidate.."As an international lawyer, I look at the Nuremberg Code as an important legal document, and as a free Canadian, I believe it is my duty to speak up when we even come close to breaking any of the ten principles enshrined in it," she said..Lewis said it was Aitchison was spreading "disinformation," as she never mentioned COVID in her letter about the 10 principles of the Nuremberg Code. She instead focused on recent governmental human experiments committed against disabled, black, and indigenous people..Lewis said Aitchison diminished her existence as a black women who has experienced racism, and that he is the "only candidate who has ever been disrespectful and rude to me publicly on multiple occasions.".Aitchison and Lewis have previously clashed about the legitimacy of "conspiracy theories."."Now, Scott has embarked on a divisive campaign to silence and cancel my voice by labeling me an anti-Semite and a racist for his own political gain," Lewis said.."The human experiment conducted on indigenous peoples in Canada should never be forgotten. We should not pretend that politicians and government leaders have evolved past the point that we never need to worry about this happening again."
