The political gotcha games continue, and Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn is the latest to be scrutinized. Will Poilievre resist the pressure to dump Gunn as the outrage machine garners steam? The ironically named and now defunct B.C. Unity Party dumped Gunn as a potential leadership candidate and the move was arguably the beginning of the end of the party. Now the federal Conservatives are poised to potentially make the same move. What high crime has Gunn committed? .He dared to utter facts when it comes to Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. Gunn stated there was no genocide and that is correct. Leftist activists try to use the term regarding residential schools, but it hardly fits the definition. Gunn also stated that some indigenous bands asked for residential schools. Again, this is historically correct. In fact, government provision of schools and education on reserves was entrenched in many treaties signed by chiefs.The woke, revisionist movement pushing a false narrative through cancel culture must be halted. If we truly want truth and reconciliation with indigenous people, we can’t allow the truth to be suppressed. .The B.C. Conservative Party is at risk of tearing itself apart due to the ejection of an MLA who dared to point out that not a single body has been found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site. While that statement may harm the sensitivities of those who have convinced themselves there was a mass murder of children conducted at the site, it remains 100% true. No bodies have been found despite millions having been given to the band to look for them.Voters need the truth and facts to make informed choices during elections. When the candidates are punished for stating verifiable truths, it threatens the democratic exercise of elections.Sadly, when legacy media takes on the mantle of fact checking, it falls short. CTV embarrassed itself when it hired controversial and vacuous TikTok personality Rachel Gilmore for a weekly fact-checking segment. The choice of Gilmore for a role that was supposed to be filled by an unbiased journalist was so absurd, that CTV realized their error and fired her after only one segment. .Legacy media won’t stand up for truth, nor will activists with a vested interest in suppressing it. The mantle for protecting the expression of truth has fallen upon Pierre Poilievre. Even if it may cause an electoral distraction and draw rage from the woke, Poilievre must refuse to remove Aaron Gunn from the electoral ticket. If Gunn is punted, the truth will be lost as no future candidates will dare utter it.There are many reasons some people should be disallowed from running for certain parties. Telling the truth must never become one of those reasons.
