New book details what happened when Pierre Poilievre .....
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2024 8:21 pmNew book details what happened when Pierre Poilievre crossed Stephen Harper
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Harper feared a revolt in his caucus when he decided to go ahead with compensation for residential school survivors, new book reveals.
The Star - By Stephanie Levitz Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief - May 23, 2024
EXCERPT: "To this day, Poilievre’s 2008 remarks continue to bubble up in conversations about how the Conservative leader might guide the country’s relationship with Indigenous people if he becomes Canada’s next prime minister. [ https://www.thestar.com/politics/new-af ... 501dd.html ]
In the 2008 interview, he referred to the money Indigenous communities make from resource development on their lands, and the money the federal government was already giving them at the time, and wondered aloud where it was all going.
“That is an incredible amount of money. Now, along with this apology comes another four billion in compensation for those who partook in the residential schools over those years. Now, you know, some of us are starting to ask, ‘Are we really getting value for all of this money, and is more money really going to solve the problem?’” he said, according to a transcript published in the book.
“My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance. That’s the solution in the long run. More money will not solve it.”
Criticism of his remarks was as swift as it was fierce. Indigenous leaders were appalled, saying his remarks were insensitive, perpetuated stereotypes about Indigenous people and completely discounted the impact of the trauma inflicted by the residential school system. . . . . "
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[ https://www.thestar.com/politics/federa ... 1a019.html ]
Harper feared a revolt in his caucus when he decided to go ahead with compensation for residential school survivors, new book reveals.
The Star - By Stephanie Levitz Deputy Ottawa Bureau Chief - May 23, 2024
EXCERPT: "To this day, Poilievre’s 2008 remarks continue to bubble up in conversations about how the Conservative leader might guide the country’s relationship with Indigenous people if he becomes Canada’s next prime minister. [ https://www.thestar.com/politics/new-af ... 501dd.html ]
In the 2008 interview, he referred to the money Indigenous communities make from resource development on their lands, and the money the federal government was already giving them at the time, and wondered aloud where it was all going.
“That is an incredible amount of money. Now, along with this apology comes another four billion in compensation for those who partook in the residential schools over those years. Now, you know, some of us are starting to ask, ‘Are we really getting value for all of this money, and is more money really going to solve the problem?’” he said, according to a transcript published in the book.
“My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance. That’s the solution in the long run. More money will not solve it.”
Criticism of his remarks was as swift as it was fierce. Indigenous leaders were appalled, saying his remarks were insensitive, perpetuated stereotypes about Indigenous people and completely discounted the impact of the trauma inflicted by the residential school system. . . . . "
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