Poilievre delivers speech to a group criticized for residential school 'denialism'
," saying that such discrimination is the "only systemic discrimination there is."
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said it was "appalling" that Poilievre would "associate himself with an organization like this, particularly after a day like today," he said. He was referring to the discovery of a jawbone fragment belonging to a child at a former residential school site.
"He will never fix them and that's why we need to replace him with a new government that will work for the people," Poilievre said of Trudeau in his speech. "He will not fix these problems because he is the problem." Poilievre said he would not shy away from his pointed attacks on the Liberal government even though, he said, the conventional wisdom from the "Laurentian elite" and the "established liberal orthodoxy" is that he should moderate his positions after claiming the party's leadership.
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