The Conservative Leader’s in-person address is a marked departure from Stephen Harper, who never delivered a speech to AFN chiefs
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
It remains to be seen how First Nations leaders in the room for Mr. Poilievre’s speech will react to his attendance. Manyleaders were highly critical of the approach by Mr. Harper, including his resistance to call a national inquiry to examine the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
“In many cases, students were neglected and abused,” his notes state. “Tragically, too many young children never made it home. Those were terrible crimes by a big imposing government against each victim and against your communities.” In 2023, Mr. Poilievre also received criticism, including from Liberal cabinet ministers, for delivering remarks to the Winnipeg-based Frontier Centre for Public Policy that in 2018 ran radio ads with claims about debunking myths about residential schools. When he was asked about that appearance in an interview with City News, Mr. Poilievre said he speaks to hundreds of groups every year and he does not agree with everything these groups stand for.
Mr. Poilievre will also point to his support for a First Nations proposal called the First Nations Resource Charge, designed to allow communities to take greater control over resource revenues.
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