Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs does not accept Air Canada’s apology

The head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs says the group does not accept Air Canada’s apology over a memo about a decision to stop using downtown Winnipeg hotels for crew layovers. 

Grand Chief Derek Nepinak says the airline was half-hearted in its attempt to make things right over the internal missive. 

The memo, which surfaced over the weekend, says employees will be staying at a hotel closer to the airport due to security concerns downtown. 

It notes that one-thousand displaced people from rural Manitoba are staying in hotels in Winnipeg‘s core. The assembly says the reference to the evacuees is racist because many come from a northern reserve affected by flooding.