Canada election: Indigenous issues ‘never really risen to top’

Ellis Ross, a member of the legislative assembly for B.C. and an Indigenous leader, told Farah Nasser that Indigenous issues have “never really risen to the top” in terms of the political landscape. He also said while discussions on unmarked graves were brought up when they were discovered, commitments made don’t “describe the complicated, costly, long-term plan that we needed” to address the graves found.

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