Have Indigenous issues taken a backseat during this federal election campaign? – 680 News

Winnipeg ─ Before the election campaign, Canadians were coming to terms with the stark reality of residential schools with the discovery of unmarked graves.

But reconciliation seems to have taken a backseat during the campaign.

The country was in shock when hundreds of children were discovered in unmarked graves at multiple residential school sites across Canada.

The discoveries were addressed as a national tragedy by serval political parties when the graves were first exposed.

But Winnipeg’s James Favel, the president of First Nations Community Response Corporation, wishes it was still getting the same amount of attention now during the lead-up to the Sept. 20 federal election.

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