Ontario: First Nations Leaders Denounce Federal Election Debate

Ontario: First Nations Leaders Denounce Federal Election Debate   Chiefs, meeting in Assembly in Toronto, are not surprised by the continued disregard for First Nation concerns in this years’ federal election debate. The national debate was void of any reference to First Nations with the exception of a scathing shopping list of shortcomings by NDP Leader Jack Layton. With reference being made to crowded, inadequate housing, burgeoning jails filled with First Nations people and an emphatic call...

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