Defending the government's Arctic strategy during a foreign affairs debate, the Conservative leader said that having Inuk candidate Leona Aglukkaq sit in parliament is an indication that "those people, that the Inuit and the North has arrived in our country."
Harper's comment followed an attack by Thomas Mulcair targeting the Conservative environment minister. The NDP leader chided the incumbent Nunavut MP's response to a northern food crisis-related story that concerned her constituents.
"When we brought cases to the House of Commons about people going into garbage cans to find food in the North, his minister, Leona Aglukkaq sat there in the House of Commons reading her newspaper," Mulcair said on stage at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall.
Harper Offends AFN Regional Chief With Inuit Debate Comment
Zi-Ann Lum/huffingtonpost.ca
Sep 29, 2015
"Those people" frequently refer to the PM as
"Big Sled-No Dogs"
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