President of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and Hupacasath First Nation was reacting to news that Melanie Mark, B.C.’s first First Nations cabinet minister, is resigning from her seat
In the face of racism and hatred, Indigenous women in public life need “dinosaur skin,” says the president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and Hupacasath First Nation.
Mark said after seven years and three elections since she took her seat in 2016 she remains the only First Nations woman to hold a seat in the chamber and to serve in cabinet. Sayers, who holds law and business degrees, said women have to walk into public life “with their eyes wide open.” Nyugen said Mark’s call for less partisan behaviour is something that would be supported by many Canadians, who want a “more collaborative, more multi-partisan system, one that more recognizes commonality and being kinder to each other than the current systems.”
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