The Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta is calling for Premier Jason Kenney to remove members of his staff and the curriculum review panel..In a letter sent Aug. 18, Adam North Peigan, President of the SSIS, asked Jason Kenney to fire speech writer Paul Bunner and remove Chris Champion from the curriculum panel..“What is it going to take Premier for you to listen to the First Peoples and make significant changes in how you govern our province? We cannot deny the atrocities of the Residential School or the Sixties Scoop survivors. To pretend it never happened is unjust,” North Peigan writes in his letter..“Mr. Champion appears to believe that there is no such thing as Indigenous history in Alberta, and he is intent on erasing it from our school curriculum,” said NDP Indigenous Relations Critic Richard Feehan..“Once again, I am calling on Premier Kenney to dismiss Paul Bunner and dismiss Chris Champion.”.There has been controversy to the appointment of Champion as a social studies adviser. He used to be an adviser to Premier Jason Kenney during his time in Ottawa as a MP..Champion founded and still publishes a history publication called The Dorchester Review..A piece without a byline in the review’s first edition and republished this year, critiques history curriculum introduced by “left” governments..The piece blasts an Australian history curriculum for being “light on facts and heavy with guilt about aboriginals and immigrants.”.“Here in Canada the preoccupation with victimhood has mostly centred on Japanese Canadians and residential school ‘survivors.’ “.The government claims Champion did not write the article..In a 2003 article Canada’s Cracked Mosaic, Bunner recalls his time at Boston University when another Canadian student warned him “to be careful about blacks…one of the other hockey players, a native Bostonian, invited me into his room to show me the biggest handgun I had ever seen. ‘It’s for the n——,’ he said.” (original text not redacted).Bunner has also blamed minorities for a large percent of crime..“Ethnic minorities are disproportionately involved in violent crime on both sides of the border, but at least Americans admit it,” Bunner wrote..“In this country the Toronto Star attacks the police as racist when they point out the over-representation of blacks in the city’s violent crime statistics. When Indian thugs trap white kids and cut them to pieces, the Edmonton police quickly rule out a racial motive and nobody balks..“Everyone knows that race is the defining element of violent crime in Canada today. POLL: Many Albertans say they will ignore Christmas COVID lockdown .“The weekly casualty figures from the gang wars in Toronto’s Jamaican ghetto read like dispatches from a war zone. The shooting of five East Indians during the first weekend of December in Vancouver was but the latest skirmish in a decade-long war that has killed 50 people. On the prairies, if it’s not Asian gangbangers whacking each other and occasionally innocent bystanders, it’s aboriginal murder and mayhem..“The Christmas season in Edmonton opened with five white teenagers being lured into a house, where at least a half-dozen reputed members of the Alberta Warriors Native gang allegedly tortured and terrorized them for two hours.”.The NDP said Bunner is the author of numerous racist, sexist, Islamophobic, and homophobic articles dating from the late 1990s up to 2016..Bunner’s 2013 article The ‘Genocide’ That Failed claimed that residential school survivors were fabricating their experiences to create a “bogus genocide story” for financial gain. .Several indigenous leaders have called for Kenney to fire Bunner, including the Confederacy of Treaty Six Chiefs, and Marlene Poitras, Alberta regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
