Sen. Lynn Beyak was booted from the Conservative caucus on Thursday after she refused to take down letters from her personal website that her party leadership deemed racist. Perry Bellegarde, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said they contain “racist and stereotypical attitudes” that perpetuate misunderstandings of Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Here is an example of what one letter said:

“If you took a bunch of Amish farmers from southern Ontario and banished them to a reserve in northern Ontario, within a year they would have built all of their members a new home, a new church and barns for every homestead… At the same time the aboriginals relocated to Amish country near Kitchener would have burned down the house and left the fields to gully and rot.” — Paul