Alberta First Nations members from Treaty Six are calling for the resignation of Premier Jason Kenney's speechwriter for his 2013 column dismissing what he called the "bogus genocide story" of Canada's residential school system. Kenney speechwriter Paul Bunner has been under fire this week after a series of columns and articles he wrote from the late 1990s to 2016 resurfaced. In the articles, Bunner dismissed the "bogus genocide story" of Canada's residential school system and said Indigenous youth could be "ripe recruits" for violent insurgencies. In the statement, Treaty Six said it was the "highest disgrace" for a government official to disparage one of the greatest tragedies in the community's history. "Upholding the honour of the Crown should mean immediately firing the government staffer Paul Bunner."

Source: CBC News June 27, 2020 16:30 UTC