Judith Sayers, a lawyer and president of the Nuu\u002DChah\u002DNulth Tribal Council, said she\u0027s not surprised by Mark\u0027s decision given that Indigenous people in…
B.C.’s first First Nations female cabinet minister announced Wednesday she will resign from her Vancouver-Mount Pleasant seat effective the end of March. Despite a fiery speech that excoriated the halls of power she occupied for seven years, Mark implored Indigenous women leaders to take up where she left off.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
With her mother by her side, Mark said her resignation was especially difficult given her constituency includes the Downtown Eastside where her mother lives.Article content Mark, who is Nisga’a, Gitxsan, Cree and Ojibway, attended a Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs meeting Thursday at the Musqueam First Nation, where she took part in a blanketing and brushing off ceremony intended to bring her strength and protection.Article content
“We need to take seriously the number of women who are leaving maybe prematurely from the work that they’re doing,” Furstenau said. “We have to ask ourselves about the the kind of conditions that politicians face and that women face as politicians. We need we need that diversity of representation.”
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