UPDATE
Tina Olivero dropped out of the race on Friday after CBC Newfoundland reportedly asked her about a labour dispute with her former nanny in which Olivero was ordered to pay more than $23,000 outstanding wages.
This is Tina Olivero. She's running for the Progressive Conservatives in the provincial election in Newfoundland.
She's the kind of person who just wants everyone to get along.
She wants you to always be true to yourself. Don't ever let your race or culture change that!
Despite the positivity gushing from Olivero's account, she got herself into a bit of a sticky situation this week with this tweet.
...and this reply, among others.
@olivero_tina would you say a person with cancer or epilepsy needs a new solution starting with self awareness ?
People became negative. 😞
@olivero_tina I so wish my dad had been more self aware about his lung cancer. Maybe we could have kept him around longer.
@olivero_tina adding to the stigma around mental health and medication!! Love it!!
Someone even created a Kijiji ad about her selling medical textbooks.
But Olivero just couldn't understand why everyone was being so mean to her.
.@olivero_tina You are being hurtful by insinuating our loved ones who died could still be here if only they wanted it hard enough.
Impossible! Olivero is ALWAYS positive.
To clarify her comments to the #haters, she wrote an explanation on Facebook that is more than 2,300 words-long.
She talked extensively about her career and how she's empowered people in her life, and said she even has a family member with mental illness.
"I know it first hand and I have so much compassion for the people who have illness and who are in the families of those with addiction and/or mental illness," she wrote.
She said she had just "asked questions of addiction and mental illness."
She then blamed the media for wanting to ask her questions about her comments on mental illness.
Just stay positive, guys!
