First Nations chiefs boo Scheer for not saying how he’s different from Harper
Posted December 6, 2018 9:01 am.
Last Updated December 6, 2018 9:33 am.
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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says First Nations chiefs will have to wait until his platform is released to see how he differs from former prime minister Stephen Harper.
Hundreds of chiefs in Ottawa for the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly booed him in response.
During a question-and-answer session with the opposition leader, chiefs asked Scheer how he plans to rebuild trust with Indigenous people in Canada, saying Harper lost that trust.
Scheer, responding to two similar questions, says he’s going to have to ask for a little bit of patience, until the Conservatives have a 2019 election platform ready.
Scheer says there will be clear ways that his approach will be different.
He says in the last election the Conservatives did not gain support from a large majority of First Nations communities and people and he wants to fix that.
