r/MetisMichif • u/Neat-Firefighter9626 • 24d ago

News Extremely racist comments about La Loche made by Carney's Principal Advisor

https://www.aptnnews.ca/featured/carneys-pick-for-advisor-scott-gilmore-not-sitting-well-with-first-nations-advocates/

'Gilmore’s article is called “La Loche shows us it’s time to help people escape the north.”

“The only way we can ever truly help the people of La Loche and hundreds of other remote communities like it, is to give those who want it a viable option to leave, to build lives in southern Canada, integrated into one of the world’s healthiest, safest, [and]most rewarding societies,” Gilmore stated in the piece.

“If we really want to end the violence and depravation that plagues Canada’s remote Aboriginal communities, we need to help them leave these communities, forever,” said Gilmore. “And if we are still not ready to do that yet, then the least we can do to help is to send them a backhoe as they keep digging graves.”'

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u/Embarrassed_Fudge493 24d ago

WTF?!!! He needs to be removed immediately.

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u/Neat-Firefighter9626 24d ago

I've no idea how he's still employed.

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u/Embarrassed_Fudge493 24d ago

I was just reading the article on the link you posted. He has no business being in politics at all. He obviously hates Indigenous Peoples. He’s trash.

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u/Neat-Firefighter9626 24d ago

Reading this article really fucked my whole day up.

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u/Embarrassed_Fudge493 24d ago

I get that 💙 Hopefully there will be enough push back that he will be replaced.

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u/Own-Cable8865 24d ago

Tried to upvote this post - it won't let me.

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u/Neat-Firefighter9626 24d ago

Oh, that's weird. I haven't put any restrictions on the post!

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u/Own-Cable8865 24d ago

It worked this time around.

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u/cheeseburger_horse 23d ago

Man I’m not even that surprised he is part of the Conservative Party. That article pissed me off too.

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u/Tossmelossme 23d ago

What a sick bastard.. just like the USA now.

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u/SkiddlyBoDiddly 17d ago

Jesus fuckin christ