Native chief says apology for newsletter slurs is not enough – The Province

Native chief says apology for newsletter slurs is not enough

Kent Spencer, The Province
Published: Thursday, September 27, 2007

A native leader says an apology from the authors of a newsletter slurring aboriginal students at the University of B.C. is not good enough.

The “so-called apology” from the newsletter’s authors was “more of a clumsy, qualified excuse than a genuine apology,” Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said yesterday. “We demand an unqualified apology to be broadcast as widely as were the original injurious and defamatory statements.”

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