MLA Dallas Brodie's behaviour is corrosive, divisive, and reprehensible
"We need courage not cruelty, and partnerships not provocation!"
Over the past several months, the Independent MLA for Vancouver-Quilchena, Dallas Brodie, has revealed a deeply disturbing pattern of conduct toward First Nations in British Columbia. Let’s be clear: this is not about free speech or legal debate. It is a deliberate campaign to deny truth, undermine Indigenous governance, and normalize bigotry in the Legislature.
Just weeks ago, Brodie was expelled from the BC Conservative Party caucus after publicly mocking residential school survivors during a podcast. Her words were cruel, dehumanizing, and rightly condemned by Indigenous and Crown leaders across the province.
This week in Question Period, she peddled residential school denialism under the guise of legal “fact,” falsely accusing the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) of calling for her imprisonment, and demanding the province defund them. The FNLC rightly corrected the record and reaffirmed their call for legal protections against denialism and hate.
Thankfully Deputy Premier and Attorney General Nikki Sharma stood ready to provide a thoughtful and compassionate response.
Earlier this week, Brodie introduced a motion for debate that lists Indigenous “assertions of sovereignty” alongside election interference and threats of annexation by hostile foreign states.
This is no accident. It’s a pattern. It’s deliberate. And it’s dangerous.
Brodie’s words are not just offensive—they are corrosive. They sow division in a province where we have worked for generations to build understanding, healing, and mutual respect. This is not what leadership looks like.
First Nations leaders across this province are working every day to strengthen families, restore lands, support economic development, and build bridges between communities. We are not trying to divide Canada—we are trying to complete it.
We want our children to grow up in a society that values their languages, their stories, and their presence. We want to be full participants in the work of making British Columbia more just, more inclusive, and more resilient. We want to be part of this project—not excluded from it.
What MLA Brodie is peddling is not principled debate. It is the kind of rhetoric that denies our history, diminishes our humanity, and disrespects our vision for a shared future.
And it leaves me asking: why would an elected official in 2025 use her platform to incite distrust rather than build understanding? Why would she target survivors and their families—people who have already endured so much?
The path forward requires courage, not cruelty, and partnership not provocation.
I lift my hands to the courageous truth-tellers in First Nations communities, and to those who carry that intergenerational burden.
I lift my hands to the Indigenous leadership across British Columbia who have worked patiently and persistently to be included in the provincial project.
I lift my hands to the growing number of British Columbians, including our provincial government, who understand that we are stronger when we respect one another and work together.
I’m so sorry that this type of behaviour continues. The ignorance, fear and aggression behind it is so frustrating and heart breaking. Thank you for bringing it to everyone’s attention and for speaking out.
When you ask why, it is a possible distorted thinking problem caused by one of the personality disorders recognized in the DSM-5, perhaps similar to Trumps thinking.