The official leader of the opposition in Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre, will speak this morning in Montreal, the day after his speech at the annual assembly of the Assembly of First Nations.
The latter told Indigenous leaders gathered in Montreal that their children “could be the richest in the world” if they joined in on natural resource development projects, which he promised to promote. “If reconciliation means anything, it means saying yes to the economic opportunities that First Nations are asking for,” he added. Some chiefs turned their backs on the politician during his speech in protest. An Indigenous leader from British Columbia, Judy Wilson, of the Neskonlith Nation, denounced the Conservative leader’s silence on the climate emergency and missing and murdered Indigenous women.