SnowshadowII :maple:😳 🇨🇦 Please do , if you can possibly point out any comment that isn't racist--and now he is walking back an apologizing after the damage is done. He HAD to put an IF in it!
"“I get pretty passionate, and I just want to say I sincerely apologize for my words, not only if it hurt all the chiefs in that room, but all First Nations,” Ford said Thursday, flanked by First Nations leaders at a news conference.
Ford made the comments following a meeting with First Nations at his office at Queen’s Park, a day after he sparked anger by saying the province was making an offer to First Nations “on a silver platter” and that he had treated them “like gold.”
He then went on to say First Nations need to take care of themselves instead of asking the government for money.
“But there’s going to be a point that you can’t just keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government. You’ve got to be able to take care of yourselves,” Ford said. “And when you literally have gold mines, nickel mines, every type of critical mineral that the world wants and you’re saying ‘no, no, I don’t want to touch that. By the way, give me money.’”
Fords comments came in the context of his efforts to develop valuable mineral sites in Northern Ontario as part of his plan to bolster Ontario’s economy in the face of a trade war with the United States
Asked about Ford’s comments Thursday, First Nations MPP Sol Mamakwa said the comments “were very deeply troubling, but also racist.”
Some First Nations leaders who met with Ford Thursday said they felt the apology was “sincere.”
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