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Anjou Mayor Luis Miranda kicked councillor Lynne Shand out of his caucus Wednesday, following her anti-Muslim comments on Facebook on Saturday.

“We’re on separate paths since this morning,” Miranda told the Montreal Gazette after issuing a news release announcing Shand’s expulsion.

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“For the good of everyone, it’s better that she sit as an independent,” he said.

Miranda defended himself against criticism for not expelling Shand sooner after she posted a stream of anti-Muslim comments Saturday, saying she was furious about having been treated by an ophthalmologist who wore a hijab on Friday.

“A veiled woman … grrrrrr … if it hadn’t been an emergency I would have refused to be treated by her,” she wrote.

“I am raging because this is really the Islamization of our country, we must accept everything, give them reasonable accommodations, take down our crucifix,” she added, accusing Muslims of wanting to “convert the planet to Islam by massive immigration and multiple births.”