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Rachel Blaney

  • Member of Parliament
  • NDP
  • North Island—Powell River
  • British Columbia
  • Voting Attendance: 65%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $145,542.18

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Context: House Hansard - 193 - May/9/23
Ms. Rachel Blaney (North Island—Powell River, NDP)
  • May/9/23 10:36:29 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, this is a serious issue. I think everyone in this House is very concerned with this. We know this is a serious issue that keeps coming up again and again and again. What we need is transparency. Could the member talk about why a public inquiry is so important, even more so now as we discuss this matter of privilege?
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Context: House Hansard - 34 - Feb/19/22
Ms. Rachel Blaney (North Island—Powell River, NDP)
  • Feb/19/22 9:54:46 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for her intervention, but I admit to having a great sense of despair in my own heart right now. I think of when the first children were found buried in Kamloops, outside of that institution. When I was four, I was adopted into an indigenous family. I remember, when we found those children, my sister calling me and saying that she had to tell Daizy, my niece, about residential school and about Granny, and that she had wanted to wait a bit longer. When we look at the reality that white privilege, white extremism and white supremacy are still so strong in this country and that many of the prominent organizers of this organization and occupation are from that community, we see how carefully we must walk. My granny, who went to residential school until she was 16, used to say, “You'd better stand straight where you are and know who you're standing next to”. Can the member talk about how her party has stood next to these folks who have diminished the realities of people in this country?
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