Chief wants Tories to drop candidate accused of denying residential schools history [Video]

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The regional chief for British Columbia is calling on the Conservative party to drop a candidate accused of denying the history of residential schools.

In videos posted on social media, Aaron Gunn — the Conservative candidate in North Island-Powell River in British Columbia — has said Canada’s program of residential schools did not constitute an act of genocide and that the schools are “much-maligned.”

“There was no genocide. Stop lying to people and read a book,” Gunn wrote in 2020.

In another post, Gunn seems to suggest the burning of a church after news broke that 215 anomalies were found on the grounds of a former B.C. residential school occurred because of “weak, spineless politicians who cede all the narrative ground to the media and radical left.”

There is no reporting that Indigenous people …