{"id":15524,"date":"2025-04-04T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/?post_type=article&p=15524"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:53:43","slug":"greens-support-first-nations-call-to-pierre-poilievre-to-remove-anti-indigenous-candidate-conservative-aaron-gunn","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/fr\/news\/greens-support-first-nations-call-to-pierre-poilievre-to-remove-anti-indigenous-candidate-conservative-aaron-gunn","title":{"rendered":"Greens Support First Nations’ Call to Pierre Poilievre to Remove Anti-Indigenous Candidate, Conservative Aaron Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VICTORIA – The Green Party of Canada joins First Nations in demanding the Conservative Party drop Aaron Gunn from the ballot for his many unacceptable posts and, more specifically, his denial of the history of residential schools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntolerance has no place in our democracy,\u201d said co-Leader Green Party Elizabeth May. \u201cI stand with our First Nations in demanding that the Conservative Party drop Aaron Gunn from the ballot. In posts he praises Elon Musk, the rightwing Liberal Party of B.C. rejected him. How can the federal Conservatives standby this Trump-like candidate?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor decades Canada has denied the coordinated racism Indigenous Peoples faced in residential schools,\u201d added May. \u201cWith the Truth and Reconciliation Commission we finally got to the bottom of this dark chapter in our history. Aaron Gunn\u2019s denial is just appalling.\u00a0\u00bb <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Jessica Wegg the people of North Island\u2014Powell River have a candidate they can count on. Elizabeth May joins Jessica in her riding this afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, led by the late Murray Sinclair, concluded residential schools were intended for cultural genocide, \u201ca systematic, government-sponsored attempt to destroy Aboriginal cultures and languages and to assimilate Aboriginal peoples so that they no longer existed as distinct peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only has Aaron Gunn been spreading misinformation and intolerance, he is out of step with his own party,\u201d said co-Leader Green Party Jonathan Pedneault. \u201cConservative MPs voted in favour of a unanimously passed motion recognizing residential schools as genocide in 2022. If the Conservative Party had any integrity, they would drop him as a candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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