Western Standard - April 20, 2026


“More rape will not benefit reconciliation”： BC MLA questions NDP over ex-chief’s comments

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Francis Whittowson Charles Blow
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

151.1

Word count

385

Sentence count

13

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

3

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Summary

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Learn English with the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney. In this episode, he responds to a call from a Chief in the Williams Lake area to the Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Peter B. Tkachuk.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 i was really angry with her but i expressed my anger to her right there and her cameras were
00:00:07.040 there uh she's made a documentary you know as a part of that i i doubt that i'm in that documentary
00:00:12.880 not that i've watched it or neither do i want to but i basically told her you know what you're
00:00:19.200 doing is not right you're hurting our people you're hurting the survivors you're hurting the elders
00:00:24.080 and stop. You know, I told her, I wish that I, our people could grab you, drag you over to the
00:00:33.360 Kellogg's residential school, put you into the basement, speak our language to you, nothing but 1.00
00:00:41.440 beat you, rape you, hurt you. And maybe you'd understand what we, our people went through. 1.00
00:00:48.160 Well, video footage just surfaced of a chief from the Williams Lake area named
00:00:53.600 Charlene Bellow saying the following about Professor Francis Widowson. Does the Premier
00:01:00.640 agree with this Chief that reconciliation should include Canadians getting beaten and raped, 0.83
00:01:07.680 or will he unequivocally denounce the Chief's vile and inexcusable threats?
00:01:16.160 Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation.
00:01:19.200 Thank you, Honorable Speaker. I think I know what the member's trying to do here,
00:01:25.600 and that's to further divide us over an issue which is very emotional, which is very
00:01:31.360 troubling and challenging for all involved. And that's the issue of residential schools,
00:01:36.480 and that's the issue of youth, of children who were taken away from their homes.
00:01:43.600 They were not allowed to return. They were not allowed to speak their languages.
00:01:47.040 they were not allowed to to be who they were and many of them never came home I'm not sure exactly
00:01:55.820 what the member is referring to but I do know what she's tried to do in the past insisting that
00:02:02.100 the bodies of children who died at residential schools should be dug up something that you would
00:02:08.000 never insist in any other place in the world where the holocaust or genocides occurred that's not how
00:02:14.820 we do these things. And so I'll certainly look to see what the member's referring to, but
00:02:20.740 I just say that we need to respect victims here and not re-victimize people who've been in
00:02:27.340 very difficult circumstances that I don't think anyone of us would stand if they were our children.