"It's the Indigenous people across Ontario that need a public apology from him," MPP Sol Mamakwa said on Friday.

Paul Dewar, a former NDP MP recently diagnosed with incurable brain cancer, launched his new grassroots initiative Youth Action Now at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa Tuesday night.

Should he be successful, Singh - a turbaned Sikh - would break through a long-standing barrier at the federal level, one that really ought have been shattered long ago, said Karl Belanger, Mulcair's former principal secretary.