APTN News: Hope, Tears and Arrogance: Trudeau’s Indigenous legacy

In 2015 Justin Trudeau was the prime minister who showed up on Halloween dressed up with his children, jogged, posed for selfies with people on the street and importantly for some Indigenous Peoples, was not Stephen Harper.

The Harper government had sparked #IdleNoMore, one of the longest-sustained chains of Indigenous protests across the country. It was a reaction to omnibus legislation that, in part, deregulated environmental protections under the Navigable Waters Protection Act.

”Justin Trudeau was elected,  in the wake of the biggest cacophony of Idle No More,“ said Niigaan Sinclair, a professor at the University of Manitoba and panelist on APTN News’ Truth and Politics segment.

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