Thread by @AdamPOlsen

Yesterday in question period Premier @jjhorgan was surprised that I “don't support investing in our collective history.”

The truth might be uncomfortable, but the history the Premier is celebrating is the graverobbing of our ancestors. 1/ #bcpoli #RBCM #Reconciliation

This museum has had no issue with its natural history or its settler-oriented exhibits. Its problem is how it relates to Indigenous people.

Whatever story the @bcndp want to tell themselves, we don’t need an $800 million new shrine to house systemic rot. 2/ #bcpoli #RBCM

.@jjhorgan and the @bcndp are treating our cultures as artifacts, while many of those items in their collections are relevant and important today. 3/ #bcpoli #RBCM #Reconciliation

This gov’t is focused on building a museum when it should be investing in repatriating ancestral remains and items of cultural significance. 4/ #bcpoli #RBCM #Reconciliation

Growing up in western culture we have learned to celebrate museums & the strictly curated story narratives they tell.

We want our sacred items home. We don’t want to visit our culture locked behind glass in a museum or storage facility, we want it on our land & water. 5/ #bcpoli

Today I asked Premier @jjhorgan if he understood that this announcement is a powerful act of aggression, a power play, wrapped in the rhetoric of reconciliation.

Minister @melaniejmark stood - her answer was insufficient. 6/ #bcpoli #RBCM #Reconciliation

#Reconciliation will not be achieved by the same means we were colonized.

It requires a fundamental restructuring of the systems that oppressed, stole, and subjected Indigenous People, not an $800M warehouse for Indigenous culture. 7/7 #bcpoli #RBCM