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NIGHT HUNTING CREATING RACE WAR SAYS PALLISTER

In a speech to party faithful in Virden on Monday Premier Brian Pallister said that night hunting by aboriginal people was creating a race war.

Pallister was blunt in his comments and said that his government had stepped up enforcement of night hunting but enforcement alone will not stop the practice. “So what are we doing? Organizing to bring indigenous people together. Because it’s becoming a race war, and I don’t want that. Young aboriginal guys going out and shooting a bunch of moose because they can? Because they say it’s their right? Doesn’t make any sense.”

The premier went on to say “This is a poor practice, a dumb practice and an unfair practice.”

In a statement issued Friday NDP MLA Wab Kinew said “Premier Pallister’s ‘race war’ comments are a divisive and unhelpful intervention in an already over-heated conversation.”

He went on to say ” To claim behind closed doors that there is a ‘race war’ in your province and to then leave for a multi-week vacation in Costa Rica is not leadership, it’s irresponsible. The Premier should return to Manitoba immediately, apologize for his insensitive comments, and start discussions on solutions that work for everyone.”

Although night hunting and spotlighting is a safety concern in rural Manitoba indigenous people have a constitutional right to hunt, even at night. First Nation hunting rights are not regulated by the province.

-News4 Winnipeg-

 

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