Leah Gazan

I don't think we can criminalize this.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, commenting on calls by Winnipeg Center NDP MP Leah Gazan for an emergency debate in the House of Commons after a recent incident involving white nationalists at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Whoa, whoa.

And protests at the University of Winnipeg against those questioning the harms of Canada's residential school system and challenging survivors' accounts.

Uh, I put out regularly content asking people to write letters, to sign petitions, and we're not getting that.

Like, there's a petition right now for clean drinking water that Leah Gazan had put forward, and I put out a TikTok, and we got, um, double the numbers, but, you know, and it's at 1,000.

[laughs] At the time I put it up, it was at, like, 500.

And so, and it's been up for a while.

Still in the capital, where Indigenous leaders from Canada and the Amazon gathered Wednesday to press for urgent action on climate.

Joined by Manitoba NDP MP Leah Gazan, speakers expressed concern about the expansion of fossil fuel projects in Canada, claiming that violates the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Speaking to federal fast-tracking of projects through legislation like Bill C-5, environmentalist Clayton Thomas-Muller.

There is no pan-Indigenous policy that eliminates their fiduciary and legal obligation to consult with each and every single individual of the 637 First Nations from coast to coast to coast.

None of the information they provided to the tribunal was associated with their task of missing children and unmarked graves.

But Leah Gazan is now misrepresenting the People's Permanent Tribunal citations.

If you read the real report, they do not accuse Canada of genocide.

And in fact, the Permanent People's Tribunal is only an opinion tribunal.

We haven't had that as a country.

neither have the individuals who worked at the schools or the churches.

So it's a criminal defamation against Canada that Leah Gazan is presenting in Parliament.

And in fact, the fact that no one has ever been charged or convicted of genocide in Canada means that Leah Gazan also is in contempt of Parliament with her genocide motion which she presented and which passed in October, I think, 22nd of 2022, I think.

So my hope is that people will see there's lots to do.

Uh, one of the things that happened over the last two days was I ca- stumbled across a petition from Leah Gazan on clean drinking water for First Nations.

And so when I looked at it, [laughs] the signatures had less signatures than the actual likes on her Instagram, just kind of proving how performative some folks can be.

Yes, it's good to amplify, um, Indigenous woman's voice, but you gotta listen to it, comprehend it, open the other petition, and sign it, and then do the follow-up email sign.

So just double-check it maybe once a week, once a month, and see if there's some things that you may have missed.

I actually came across a different petition today that I had missed, so I still gotta dig that up and put it into my Linktree.

Um- And I, I just wanna give a shout-out to Leah Gazan.

I made a TikTok yesterday to basically say to people, like, you have to understand that, uh, reconciliation is a nonpartisan issue.

Unbelievable violent activity that happened because universities are encouraging students to act violently against people who ask th- this question.

Do you think that's the intent, is to establish some type of bill? Let's talk about indigenous NDP MP, Leah Gazan, or Leah Gazan's bill against residential school denialism.

Do you think that this is what's happening here? They are trying to silence people that question with another bill that is going to take Bill C-9 to a completely different levels, just because they don't want to answer questions.

That's exactly what's happening, and, you know, I've repeatedly asked the people who wanna criminalize what's called residential school denialism, which is actually residential school genocide denial, so denying that the residential schools were genocide, that's what that term means.

All these things are behind the kinds of accusations that are being made.

What do you think about my theory that the government is going to use, if they're not behind it, but let's play devil's advocate for a second.

Do you, do you think it's possible that the government will use what's going on right now, the Second Sons, um, sign, call it hate, because that's exactly what Mark Farney did, allow the bill or push the NDP MP Leah Gazan bill in order to make it hate speech to question mass grave in the name of residential school denialism to push further their censorship agenda that we've been seeing implemented through Bill C-9, Bill C-22, and Bill C-34?

Th- this is what the immediate reaction was.

Um, I'm gonna give you an example.

Leah Gazan is the one who started this water petition.

Uh, she's an elected MP.

She was a prof at the University of Winnipeg, and she put out this call.

Uh, but denying the genocide basic to this country's existence, uh, is fine.

Um, so, you know, a number of, um, contributors, Michelle Good, Leah Gazan, have put the arguments forward that this is, this is a path that should be supported.

Uh, Kimberly Murray, who closes off the, the collection, uh, the special interlocutor, has also explained why this is important.

I know the AFN, uh, has called for this.