Leadership Race: Reserves and Blaney

leadership race: Host Rosemary Barton pressed Blaney on who he would support in the Conservative leadership race if he dropped out. . Steven BlaneyPCC says he would dismantle First Nations reserves. cdnpoli Power & Politics PnPCBC February 7, 2017 The Quebec MP wouldn't answer, instead saying he respected all of the 13 candidates running alongside him, according to Huffington Post Canada. Blaney then switched to bashing the Liberal government's deficits and declaring he wants to dismantle reserves. Blaney, a former public safety minister under the previous Conservative government, made the comments Tuesday during an appearance on CBC News' Power and Politics. Reserves are not helping First Nations to grow. We can study it as long as we want, we need to attack the core issues. I say we need to dismantle reserves, because we know it is the core, the source of violence on reserves, Blaney said, adding that domestic violence was the cause behind missing and murdered aboriginal women. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.