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Grassy Narrows chief wants Carney to apologize in person for comments about protester
The chief says Carney should meet residents face to face and address compensation, health care and the mill’s shutdown after the remark drew criticism.
- Grassy Narrows Chief Sherry Ackabee demanded an in-person apology from Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday after he remarked "I can outlast her" during a Toronto press conference disrupted by mercury-poisoning protesters.
- Activists including Chrissy Isaacs interrupted a funding announcement on Monday featuring Carney, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, with protesters chanting about mercury contamination.
- Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles called the remarks "were shameful," while Conservative MP Billy Morin told The Canadian Press Carney's comment was more arrogant than a similar 2019 quip by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
- The PMO stated Wednesday that Carney could not hear the protesters, while Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty remains in contact with leadership on health, housing, and mercury care projects.
- Decades of mercury contamination persist after the Dryden Paper Mill dumped 9,000 kilograms into the English-Wabigoon River, with one study estimating 90 per cent of Grassy Narrows population suffers mercury poisoning.
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Grassy Narrows First Nation Chief demands an apology in person from Prime Minister Mark Carney, after he said he could hold longer than a First Nations woman protesting against mercury poisoning in his community at a press conference in Toronto on Monday.
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Grassy Narrows chief wants Carney to apologize in person for comments about protester
OTTAWA - The chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation is demanding an in person apology from Prime Minister Mark Carney after he said "I can outlast her" when a press
·Toronto, Canada
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