First Nation Leadership Council Calls For Conservatives To Pull North Island-Powell River Candidate

The First Nations Leadership Council is joining calls for the Conservative Party of Canada to drop the candidate for North Island-Powell River for the upcoming election.

In a news release, the FNLC points to what it calls Aaron Gunn’s “horrific and offensive posts on X between 2019 and 2021.”

The Council says his posts refute that Indigenous people faced a genocide in Canada and that “residential schools were asked for by Indigenous bands.”

The Council says such attitudes are extremely harmful and divisive and should not be held by those in public office.

In a post on X yesterday, Gunn said he has “always been firm in recognizing the truly horrific events that transpired in residential schools, and any attempt to suggest otherwise is simply false.”

Gunn’s statement said that he has “never wavered in condemning these institutions of abuse, where countless First Nations suffered at the hands of a patronizing federal government.”