Claire Samson kicked out of CAQ caucus for allegedly donating to Quebec Conservatives

Claire Samson has been kicked out of the Coalition Avenir Qubec caucus for making a donation to Quebec's Conservative party led by ric Duhaime.

The chair of the caucus, Mario Laframboise, announced theexpulsion of Samsonin a news releaseTuesday evening. Samson was first elected in 2014 to represent the riding of Ibervillein theMontrgie.

"While we have been asking Quebecers for more than a year to make considerable efforts in this fight against the virus, we cannot tolerate a member of our caucus financially supporting another political formation that challenges and rejects science and health measuresin place," said Laframboise in the statement.

Laframboise said the party will make no further comments.

ric Duhaime, a radio host organized a demonstration against public health measures in August that attracted more than 1,000 people in Quebec City.

"To force me to wear a mask, to threaten me with $600 tickets I'm sorry, we're not in communist China here. We live in a democracy," he said in a video ahead of his rally.

On social media, he regularly posts criticisms of the Legault government'shandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed thousands of Quebecers.

On Tuesday, he took to Facebook to accuse PremierFranois Legaultof being the worst on the continent when it comes to lockdownmeasures and of being the last to "give backrights and freedoms to his citizens."

To the contrary,Samson has posted very little on her social media pages in several months. A spokesperson for Samson said she does not wish to comment at this time.