Conservative commentator and advocate Aaron Gunn says the rejection of his application to run in the BC Liberals’ leadership contest goes against party members’ democratic rights to choose their own leader. “It’s an affront to democracy,” Gunn told The Epoch Times, adding that the rejection is an example of elites “thinking that they know better than their own party’s membership.” The BC Liberals informed Gunn by email on Oct. 22 that after its Leadership Election Organizing Committee (LEOC) conducted a “thorough review” of his statements made on social media, it concluded that his candidacy would be “inconsistent with the BC Liberal Party’s commitment to reconciliation, diversity, and acceptance.” The email also said Gunn had been given “an opportunity to respond to concerns raised by certain of those statements.” Gunn, however, says that even though he responded a week later, he was rejected “without any further explanation.” Gunn says the party added …