In order for there to be accountability on the Blacklock’s documents discussed in the previous post, questions must be asked by the official opposition – the Conservative Party of Canada. This happens in Question Period. This opportunity is available from January 26-29 this month.
So far, such questions have not been forthcoming, which raises the question of why. It is partially due to the fact that the Conservative Party of Canada has made all sorts of false claims itself about the “unmarked graves”. The leader at the time was Erin O’Toole, who referred to a “mass grave” being discovered on May 31, 2021.
Pierre Poilievre, however, made the following Members’ Statement in the House of Commons on June 4, 2021.
On January 23, 2024, Drea Humphrey asked Poilievre why he wasn’t speaking out more against the arson attacks on churches that had been linked to the false claim of 215 children being found. She asked him this because Poilievre had stood in the House of Commons to participate in a minute of silence to recognize the dead children.
Since then, Poilievre hasn’t said much about the residential schools except to defend the candidate Aaron Gunn.
Gunn had stated that the residential schools did not constitute genocide and were “much maligned”.
Gunn’s stance was different than other members of the Conservative Party of Canada, who, in 2022, voted unanimously to support Leah Gazan’s motion to support “what happened in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools as genocide”.
Now that we have Blacklock’s Reporter’s documents about the $12.1 million being allocated to the Kamloops Indian Band to undertake excavations, and the fact that Poilievre has said that investigations should be done to determine whether there are graves, shouldn’t the Conservative Party of Canada being asking questions in Question Period about what the government is doing about the public funds that were spent on excavations that haven’t been done?
