The Chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band is adding her voice to the list of leaders upset with a Northern MP.
Chief Tammy Cook-Searson is calling on Rob Clarke to immediately stop his plans to introduce a Private Members bill to repeal the Indian Act.
She says Clarke should talk with her and other leaders first:
“He’s never even come to our chief and council meetings to present this idea, or even to the tribal council level as far as I know.”
Meantime the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan is also calling on Clarke to withdraw the bill.
In a release the MNS says it wants to know how many MP’s in the province actually support the move, and who was involved in drafting it.
It says it’s odd that any politician would draft a bill without consulting grass-roots citizens first.
The group is also calling for a First Minister’s conference to examine the historic 145-year relationship between the government of Canada, First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples.