Garden River First Nation Chief calls on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to resign – SaultOnline.com
October 26, 2020
The Chief of Garden River First Nation is calling on RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki to resign.
Andy Rickard is taking issue with the RCMP’s response to the situation in Nova Scotia – and in other regions – where Indigenous people have faced violence and racism over fishing rights.
“Over the last couple years under her leadership, she has denied that systematic racism exists in their ranks, where reports, experiences and accounts have said otherwise,” Chief Rickard said of Commissioner Lucki. “The RCMP is standing idle while the equipment, fishery building and vehicles of the M’ikmaw are destroyed. Lives being threatened and intimidation a daily occurrence. Non-indigenous fisherman have no say in these matters – it’s the Nation to Nation relationship with Canada and its government is where it rests.”
