Chief Littlechild once attended residential schools. Decades later in 2007, he helps draft the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights.

@jkenney was serving as Secretary of State - Multiculturalism & Canadian Identity & watched as 144 UN members ratify it

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Canada is shockingly 1 of 4 countries who didn& #39;t ratify.

It& #39;s mindblowing with that history in mind, to see @jkenney name drop Chief Littlechild while refusing to #FireBunner
Mr. Canada Doesn& #39;t Need To Honour Indigenous Rights In A Non-binding UN Resolution is using a victim of residential schools to downplay racism involving residential schools.
Sure, perhaps this just wasn& #39;t his focus. Kenney was the Chair of the Subcomitee investigatng Human Rights at the time, but this UN thing probably didn& #39;t get on his radar.

I wonder, has this issue ever been on @jkenney& #39;s radar??
To get a sense for how involved he& #39;s been on Indigenous issues, @jkenney is on record in Parliament using the word "Indigenous" 11 times in his entire time there. All of those instances relate to indigenous people in OTHER countries.

See: https://openparliament.ca/search/?prepend=MP%3A+%22jason-kenney%22&q=Indigenous">https://openparliament.ca/search/...
What about how many times @jkenney has used "racism"?

Also 11 times.

Relating to issues around anti-Semitism, Anti-Chinese, Anti-Sikh, anti-Black, Anti-TFW. And a few hopes and dreams, talk-but-no-action speeches using the word.

Not a single reference to Indigenous people.
So is it just a small world after all?

Or is @jkenney just playing 3D racism chess?
If Bunner is fired, will this be the first anti-racist thing @jkenney will have ever actually initiated himself & then followed through on while in office?

Is that what& #39;s taking so long?
The braintrust lead by @MattWolfAB can& #39;t explain the reversal after all the stubborn trolling that& #39;s been done all week?

Literally WHAT DO YOU EVEN DO, MATT?

This should be easy.

Swallow pride. Fire him. Apologize.
Chief Littlechild is really a remarkable man w/ an amazing life story.

Look him up.

I& #39;ll end this w/ a DIRECT quote of his

( no paraphrasing gymnastics )

"there is no place in Canada for the attitudes that inspired the Indian residential schools system to ever again prevail"
Couple quick things to add:

PM Trudeau made sure Canada signed on to the UN Declaration in 2016.

Lastly, if you have any doubt about how local Indigenous leaders feel about Bunner, please see: https://twitter.com/ct6fn_/status/1276739271588589568">https://twitter.com/ct6fn_/st...
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