(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) calls for the immediate resignation of MLA Dallas Brodie and rejects the deeply disturbed anti-Indigenous and residential school denialist rhetoric perpetuated by MLA Dallas Brodie and the OneBC party against First Nations in B.C. Their reprehensible words and actions continue to perpetuate harm against Residential School survivors and they must be investigated and held accountable.
Regional Chief Terry Teegee, BC Assembly of First Nations:
“Last week, at the BCAFN Annual General Meeting, the Chiefs in assembly stood in consensus and passed Resolution 20/2025, Call for the resignation of MLA Dallas Brodie for violating the BC Legislature's respectful workplace guidelines and the 2024-2028 Reconciliation Action Plan. The actions of MLC Brodie and her party, OneBC, in actively promoting and using public funds to create and distribute Residential School denialism and anti-Indigenous rhetoric -- both within and outside the Legislative Assembly, have sown division, fear, and hatred. Such conduct undermines public trust in the Legislature as a body which is supposed to represent the interests of all those who live in this province without discrimination. If trust in this institution is to be maintained, we must see immediate action.”
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, UBCIC President:
“We are extremely upset by MLA Dallas Brodie’s ongoing efforts to publicly cast doubt on the experiences and truths of residential school survivors. We urge the Province to make a significant and urgent investment in public education around Indian Residential Schools. Her so-called “truth-seeking” is racist Residential School Denialism, which must be called out and rejected. Unfortunately, the taxpayers are currently on the hook for her racist behaviour, as she is carrying it out in the Legislature. We strongly support calls for her to resign.”
Robert Phillips, First Nations Summit Political Executive:
“Dallas Brodie unfortunately shows that racism is alive and well in the Province of BC. It is unconscionable that an elected official uses her public platform for what appears to be a personal misguided vendetta to spread misinformation, and racism in an attempt to create division and deny the horrible atrocities of the residential school system. Ms. Brodie has a responsibility as a public official to become informed and to support the constitutional imperative of reconciliation, not to attempt to erase First Nations’ history and truth. Ms. Brodie is the antithesis of reconciliation, and the Legislative Assembly would be better served without her.”
The FNLC stands with survivors and inter-generational survivors of Indian Residential Schools and their families, as well as the children who never made it home and all those who are harmed by the deeply troubling trend of Indian Residential School denialism. The violent and traumatic history of these schools has been built on the testimony of those who attended and worked at the schools, including federal and provincial government representatives and churches, which have acknowledged the atrocities and apologized for these truths.