Aaron Gunn
- Born
- Greater Victoria
- Education
- Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Victoria
- Career
- Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Canada Proud
- Political Experience
- Member of Parliament (MP) for North Island—Powell River since the 2025 federal election
- Notable
- Filmmaker, known for documentaries such as Vancouver Is Dying and Canada Is Dying. Sought leadership of the BC Liberal Party in 2022 but was disqualified. Founded Common Sense BC.
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Business & Financial Interests
Aaron Gunn is primarily known as a political commentator, columnist, and documentary filmmaker. He produces political content through his own media brand, which is distributed online. Before his more recent media work, he was reportedly involved with the organization BC Proud, a right-leaning third-party advertising group in British Columbia.
Key Relationships & Connections
Gunn has been associated with various conservative and right-leaning movements and figures in Canada. He is the founder of the online advocacy group BC Proud. During his attempt to run for the Conservative Party of Canada leadership, he was endorsed by former Conservative MP and cabinet minister Ed Fast.
Public Controversies
Aaron Gunn has been involved in several public controversies, primarily related to his political commentary and past statements. In 2022, he was disqualified from running for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada. The party's leadership election organizing committee stated that his past public statements were not consistent with the party's values and could bring the party into disrepute. Critics have pointed to his social media posts and commentary on topics like immigration, multiculturalism, and Indigenous issues as being inflammatory or extreme, labels which Gunn has disputed.
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Mr. Speaker, at a time when many Canadian families are feeling the pinch of the cost of living crisis, how can the Liberal government justify taking $1.6 billion out of the pockets of Canadians and giving it to Cohere, an AI company valued at more than $36 billion? Is this AI company so strapped for cash that it has to take it from taxpayers who are struggling to put food on their tables and gas
Mr. Speaker, I rise today on behalf of thousands of petitioners in my riding of North Island—Powell River who are calling on the Liberal government, now that there is a new Conservative provincial government in B.C., to abandon their condo billionaire bailout, a $1.5-billion plan to use taxpayer money in British Columbia to purchase unsold condos, instead of their developer friends having to
Mr. Speaker, the Liberals like to talk a big game when it comes to dealing with the United States, yet they refuse to lift the ideological and unscientific tanker ban that land-locks Canadian resources and depresses the Canadian dollar, giving our oil away on the cheap to the Trump administration while Canadians struggle with the cost of living crisis here at home. However, there is now a plan, a
Mr. Speaker, common sense is coming back to British Columbia. For the first time in nearly 100 years, my fellow British Columbians have ended a decade of NDP rule and elected a new Conservative government, one that shares our goal and vision to make life more affordable in B.C., to bring back safe streets and fiscal sanity and to unleash the true potential of B.C.'s resource economy. The
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to start by moving a motion: That, given that: a) Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced a plan to bail out developers, bankers and investors by using taxpayer dollars to purchase more than 2,200 unsold condominium units in British Columbia; b) This bailout will not make housing more affordable, but will prevent a price correction from taking place,
Those are the contents of the motion, Mr. Chair. Look, we're gathered here today in the middle of summer not because I think everyone loves spending time in Ottawa in July but because Canadians have very real concerns about the Liberal plan to bail out billionaire condo developers in the fifth-most unaffordable housing market in the entire world. Prime Minister It starts with the fact that
Thank you, Chair. I'll begin with a repeat of the last sentence: f) Prime Minister Mark Carney is building an economy of bailouts and handouts to Liberal insiders, while creating higher costs, debt and taxes for everyone else; The committee, during the summer adjournment, undertake an urgent study into the Canada- British Columbia partnership on condo conversion, with no fewer than six
Thank you, Chair. I'd like to move the following motion: That, given that: a) Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced a plan to bail out developers, bankers and investors by using taxpayer dollars to purchase more than 2,200 unsold condominium units in British Columbia; b) This bailout will not make housing more affordable, but will prevent a price correction from taking place,