As Saskatchewan heads to the polls next week, is Scott Moe popular with First Nations voters? – APTN News
Oct 20, 2020
When Prescott Demas looks back on his Justice for our Stolen Children camp he remembers a minor but telling detail.
“They didn’t want to sit in the teepee,” he says of government representatives sent to meet with him.
The camp, which at its height held 14 teepees, stood for nearly 200 days in Regina’s Wascana Park until evicted by court order won by park officials.
While Demas eventually forwarded his recommendations on justice and child welfare to the Saskatchewan Party, he says that encounter sums up the right-of-centre politicians.
“The Moe government don’t give a shit about any kind of Indigenous issues,” Demas recalled in a telephone interview a week before the Oct. 26 provincial election.
