After ‘disgraceful’ remarks, First Nations leaders call on Quebec MNA to resign
Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Ghislain Picard speaking at the Grand Economic Circle of Indigenous People and Quebec in Montreal, Quebec, Friday, November 26, 2021.Dufour doesn’t deserve the kind of privilege or responsibility that comes with representing his riding in Quebec’s national assembly, according to Picard.
Nakuset, executive director of the Native Women’s Shelter in Montreal, also said she was unhappy with Dufour’s comments during the city council meeting. Dufour should be “walking into that community and making an apology to them,” she added. “I think it’s really troubling that if you’re a person in political power to make these kind of blatantQuebec Solidaire co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois called on the premier to respond to address the situation and Dufour’s comments.
“Those kinds of remarks are putting us backwards in our relationships with First Nations communities and those kinds of remarks are completely unacceptable in 2023,” he said.
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