A Conservative MP is demanding an apology from a B.C. Liberal riding association president who compared the government's plans for combating human smuggling to making a deal with the Nazis.

In a blog post on Wednesday, former Liberal MP candidate Ron McKinnon slammed the government's proposals to create agreements with foreign countries like Sri Lanka to intercept migrant vessels before they hit the high seas en route to Canada.

"This brave new policy is sordidly familiar, akin to collaborating with the Nazis to stop the flight of Jews," McKinnon, currently president of the Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam Federal Liberal Association, wrote in the post.

James Moore, the Conservative MP in McKinnon's riding, says that McKinnon should be fired and he and Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff should make a public apology.

"I think they owe an apology to those who really know and understand and suffered through the Second World War and the Holocaust," Moore said.

"This kind of language, this kind of talk has no place in Canadian politics, and I think it's outrageous."

He said that the options the government is mulling to counteract the arrival of ships like the MV Sun Sea from Sri Lanka are necessary to address concerns about human smuggling and the possibility of phony refugee claimants.

"People who raise legitimate concerns should not be called Nazis," Moore said.

Diane Rabbani, executive director of the Liberal Party of Canada in B.C., said the party doesn't share McKinnon's opinion.

"The views that Ron McKinnon has posted on his blog are his, and they don't reflect those of the Liberal Party of Canada," she told ctvbc.ca.

McKinnon's remarks remained on his website Thursday, and he stood by his comments in an interview with CTV News Wednesday night.

"A situation such as going back to where the vessels are coming from and stopping them at the source, that sounds very much like, say, going back to Sri Lanka and working with the Sri Lankan government to stop the Tamils from leaving," McKinnon said.

"And that to me is right up there with working with the Nazis to stop the Jews from escaping from Germany."