Pierre Poilievre’s record on Indigenous rights concerns advocates – CBC

Apr 07, 2025

Others pleased by proposed First Nations resource charge

In an election ad, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to a bust of John A. Macdonald about the importance of developing national projects like the Canadian Pacific Railway.

“What do you think, prime minister? Could you get the railway built today?” Poilievre asks the bust.

It’s only the most recent way Poilievre has expressed his admiration for Canada’s first prime minister — the man who got the railway built, but did it by displacing Indigenous Peoples using starvation and detention, and who also was a key proponent of the residential school system.