First Nations leaders in B.C. call for Conservatives to drop candidate Aaron Gunn

First Nations leaders in B.C. call for Conservatives to drop candidate Aaron Gunn

'I find it extremely troubling that a candidate for any party could make such blatantly racist comments'

Jackie McKay · CBC News · Posted: Apr 03, 2025 2:24 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/aaron-gunn-first-nations-social-posts-1.7500555

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A former vice-president of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) wants the Conservative Party to drop its candidate in his riding over posts on social media that show "denial of residential school impacts."

"I find it extremely troubling that a candidate for any party could make such blatantly racist comments," said Bob (Galagame) Chamberlin, who served as UBCIC vice-president for 10 years and as elected chief of Kwikwasut'inuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation for 14 years.

Aaron Gunn (running as the Conservative Party candidate for North Island-Powell River) made posts on X between 2019 and 2021 denying that Indigenous people faced a genocide in Canada and that "residential schools were asked for by Indigenous bands."

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A post from Gunn on X from October 2020 reads "There was no genocide. Stop lying to people and read a book. The Holocaust was a genocide. Get off Twitter and learn more about the world."

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