Poilievre stands by B.C. candidate after Indigenous leaders urge Conservatives to drop him over ‘horrific’ online posts – The Star
Aaron Gunn has come under fire in recent days for social media posts from between 2019 and 2021, in which he denied labelling Canada’s historic treatment of Indigenous Peoples as “genocide.”
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is defending one of his candidates in British Columbia who was accused of making “horrific and offensive” comments on social media about the harms perpetrated against Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
At a campaign stop in Osoyoos, B.C., Poilievre Arejected calls from Indigenous leaders and others for the Conservatives to drop Aaron Gunn, a documentary filmmaker running in the province’s riding of North Island—Powell River, as a party candidate.
