Federal candidates talk First Nations’ issues – Pique Newsmagazine

Through his work representing Aboriginal people in the courts, Conservative MP John Weston earned his own indigenous name.

“(I’m) called Talking Eagle,” he said.

“I represented them and assisted them both in community activism and in the courts, and what I really learned from them, which I found to be a precious lesson, was their own valuing of equality.

“They loved their rights and responsibilities as Canadians, and they want to protect those and not be separated from other Canadians by a government that would have special rights.”

It was that lesson, Weston said, that prevented him from supporting the Sliammon Treaty in 2011.

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