“When a chief says that to me, I pretty much know that they haven’t actually talked to their young people,” Trudeau said in Saskatoon. Shamattawa had pointedly asked Trudeau why the federal government was slow to respond to the suicide crisis on many First Nations reserves. It happened in Kingston, Ont., in Peterborough, Ont., in Halifax as well as Saskatoon and Winnipeg. At more than one, he was criticized for failing to implement the United Nations Declaration of Rights and Indigenous Peoples. And they spoke of how the current government began with high hopes and high expectations among indigenous Canadians.

Source: National Post January 27, 2017 19:06 UTC