Is it any surprise, given this scandal from back when Harper was Prime Minister?

Poilievre had come under heavy criticism for telling CFRA News Talk Radio that he wasn't sure Canada was "getting value for all of this money" being spent to compensate former students of federally financed residential schools.

"My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self-reliance. That's the solution in the long run — more money will not solve it," Poilievre said.

The MP for Nepean-Carleton also suggested that aboriginal chiefs have too much power.

"That gets to the heart of the problem on these reserves where there is too much power concentrated in the hands of the leadership, and it makes you wonder where all of this money is going."

He was saying on this on the same day Harper was issuing a historic apology to indigenous peoples for the residential school program too, mind you.

Considering PP's words, he's always seen raw resources as more important than the people of this country, regardless of their skin colour. Notice that before the election started, he pretty much never talked about jobs or public services, or living affordability, but instead the only times he didn't attack the Liberals, he was talking about exploiting raw resources.

He sees this country as nothing more than a giant mine and oil well. Nothing else matters to him and anything not related to those two things are simply platitudes. You can tell since he barely spends any time on anything else, and it's always so half hearted.

I noticed that too. So gross.

PP really hates indigenous people. I went to school with him.

It's the Conservative way to prioritize material gains over human and environmental consideration.

Isn't their mascot prospector stepping over their own grandmother?

Totally voting smöl ~pp~ now.

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Your comment is very short, so I may be reading too much into it. However, most people who deny Residential Schools were part of genocide, simply don't know the definition. From the UN:

genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Many people assume genocide can is only something like the Holocaust, where there's an attempt to exterminate a group, but it can be more subtle, such as, "killing the indian in the child."

Yes.