Poilievre delivers speech to a group criticized for residential school 'denialism

[applegrove]

Poilievre delivers speech to a group criticized for residential school 'denialism'

Frontier Centre ran radio ads claiming to debunk 'myths' about residential schools

John Paul Tasker · CBC News · Posted: Jan 13, 2023 4:12 PM EST | Last Updated: 35 minutes ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-frontier-centre-residential-schools-1.6713419

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre faced criticism from his political opponents Friday for delivering a speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), a controversial Winnipeg-based group that has been associated with efforts to downplay the effects of residential schools on Indigenous children and oppose vaccine mandates.

Before introducing Poilievre on Friday, the group's president, Peter Holle, said the FCPP is one of the "most prolific think tanks" and it publishes articles that "might rub you the wrong way."

Holle said the group is determined to "challenge false narratives" and claimed there's a "phoney-baloney discussion about climate" among the "chattering classes and commentariat."


In 2018, the FCPP ran radio ads claiming to debunk "myths" about Canada's residential schools. The ads dismissed as "myth" the claims that residential schools were responsible for "robbing native kids of their childhood" or the dramatic decline in Indigenous language skills.

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[Bev54]

1. Kind of fitting because Poillievre rubs a lot of people the wrong way too.

[applegrove]

2. Residential schools acted like concentration camps like the British ones in South

Africa or those of the Holocaust in that many died of communicable diseases and it was known that they would.

[Bev54]

3. They were death camps for children.