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“I posted a number of inappropriate items to my personal social media accounts. I regret doing so and though I believe I would have been able to serve the new board, I do not want to create a distraction from that work,” Rae said in the statement.

Photo by Government of Saskatchewan

One of the posts he shared showed a man wearing a sombrero overlaid with a photograph of Trudeau and captioned: “Mexican word of the day: Trudeau. The hombre says a lot of sheet and makes promises, but nothing he says is Trudeau.” Rae added the word “Yep” when he shared the image on Nov. 19, 2016.

Two months later, Rae shared a second image which came from a different account but used the same photograph of the man in the sombrero. The second image also included a cartoonish and unflattering depiction of Obama and the caption: “Mexican words of the day: Pizza chip and believing. Dis pizza chip will believing the white house soon.”

Rae shared two other similar posts over the last several months. One appeared to insinuate that Mexicans drink too much tequila, while the second used a pun to mock Spanish-speakers’ accents. He also shared a photograph of a bikini-clad woman carrying a shotgun and a pair of duck decoys, to which he asked an unknown person if the woman was his “hunting buddy.”

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This is not the first time Rae has been criticized for his social media use in the eight days since his appointment to the SHA board.

CBC News reported last week that Rae shared another post saying Trudeau’s Liberal government wants to “co-parent your children and introduce them to anal sex and made up genders.” CBC reported that Rae apologized in a written statement and said the post did not “reflect my views.” His Facebook page is no longer publicly visible.