Publisher rejects Stanley book deal; Stanley lawyer responds
A publishing company openly rejected Gerald Stanley’s request for a book deal and advised other companies to follow suit.
Stanley’s representatives said they simply wanted the record set straight about some of the misinformation circulated to the public during Stanley’s trial. The Biggar-area farmer was acquitted last month of second-degree murder in the 2016 shooting death of 22-year-old Colten Boushie.
Toronto-based publishing company Between the Lines (BTL) sent the statement out yesterday, saying they rejected the request for a meeting with Stanley as an expression of solidarity with the Boushie Family. The company claimed Stanley’s former legal team was now acting as his literary agent.
“First, Mr. Stanley’s side of the story has already been told – and was validated, in willful disregard of the facts and expert testimony, by an all-white jury,” the statement read. “His side of the story is already told through a general whitewashing in public discourses that deny or minimize anti-Indigenous racism and violence, in our textbooks that erase dispossession and genocide, and in the laws and practices that led to Mr. Stanley’s acquittal.”