🇨🇦 London-area Grand Chief slams Ford's 'hat in hand' comments, says apology offers little relief
His initial remarks drew the ire of Joel Abram, Grand Chief of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians (AIAI), based in London, who said Ford is "basically calling us beggars" and questions whether he's intentionally being ignorant of Indigenous history.
"I don't think those remarks are very fitting in terms of historical context and reality and there's no real place for those kinds of remarks," said Abram.
"First Nations have always been behind in terms of getting left behind — and he's right, we should not be asking for handouts because we should have a lot more rights than we already do in terms of land and resources."
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