The Governments of the Ktunaxa Nation Feb. 6 denounced the actions of Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie that convey denialism of atrocities committed during the residential school era and called for her resignation from the B.C. Legislature.

Brodie (pictured), set to appear at a town hall event in Creston on Feb. 12, is leader of the one-person party OneBC. She was booted from the BC Conservative Party last year by former leader John Rustad for making public statements denying atrocities that occurred at provincial residential schools.

Along with mocking residential school survivors in a podcast, Brodie said in a post on X that there are no confirmed burials at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site.

“The number of confirmed child burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site is zero. Zero. No one should be afraid of the truth. Not lawyers, their governing bodies or anyone else,” she stated in the post.

She also tried and failed to introduce a bill in the B.C. legislature to ban government employees from making Indigenous land acknowledgments.

“We condemn residential school denialism and the divisive hateful statements made by MLA Dallas Brodie,” said ?aq’am nasu?kin Cheryl Casimer. “Brodie is not welcome in ?amak?is Ktunaxa, specifically in Yaqan Nu?kiy where she is scheduled to host a town hall.

“We call upon our allies to join us in stopping this nonsense from taking place. It’s harmful, disrespectful and unacceptable.”

The public denouncement states further: “Ktunaxa Peoples have experienced the loss, pain and suffering caused by residential school policies and personnel. Ms. Brodie’s rhetoric and media grandstanding perpetuate the pain and suffering of families still mourning the loss of children who were forcibly removed and did not return home from residential school.

“Ktunaxa First Nations’ leaders recognize when words and claims are intended to cause harm, to further divide British Columbians, and to frame our history and inherent rights in a way that promotes discrimination. Like other First Nations across B.C., Ktunaxa First Nations have worked for decades to build relationships with our neighbours and government partners, to benefit everyone.

“Anti-Indigenous racism and residential school denialism have no place in ?amak?is Ktunaxa,” the public statement concluded.

The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) called for the immediate resignation of MLA Brodie In November 2025, stating it “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.”

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