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As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues his cross country tour his office is silent on whether he will travel to any First Nation, Metis or Inuit communities during what some are calling his “handshake-selfie tour.
Emails to the prime minister’s office asking about potential stops in Indigenous communities were not returned.
Trudeau got back to doing what he does best Thursday, polishing his people skills during a number of campaign-style road shows aimed at countering Conservative and NDP efforts to portray the prime minister as a silver-spoon elitist.
The prime minister has looked at ease in rolled up shirtsleeves as he fielded an endless array of questions, some tough and pointed, others less so, during town hall meetings with locals and faced a couple of questions about safe drinking water in First Nation communities, pipelines, and clean air.
Isadore Day, the regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations for Ontario said if Trudeau has plans to visit First Nation communities, he hasn’t been told.
“There hasn’t been any outreach yet, we haven’t heard anything, ” Day told APTN. “I think it’s important that he does (visit a community), we’re part of the national dialogue, we’ve had enough tragedy. This is a good time … and why wouldn’t it be a priority?”
During the news conference following the Kingston town hall, the prime minister insisted the government is working to make life better for Aboriginal people, including issues of mental health, which were punctuated this week by the suicides of two 12-year-old girls in the Wapekeka First Nation in Northwestern Ontario.
In the London town hall, Chief Randall Phillips of the Oneida on the Thames reiterated a message that he delivered to Trudeau’s Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett at the AFN’s winter assembly. There he told Bennett that the new message of a nation to nation relationship being delivered by the Liberal government is not filtering down to the bureaucrats who are supposed to deliver the programs.
Phillips told Trudeau that the money promised in the budget is not making it to First Nation communities.
That is a complaint being heard across the country – and Bobby Cameron, regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Saskatchewan is anxiously waiting for an answer as to why.
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