(Montreal) Cree activist Maïtée Labrecque-Saganash will be a candidate for the nomination for Québec solidaire in the riding of Ungava and aspires to become the first Aboriginal woman elected to the National Assembly.
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“If my Nation thinks that I can be useful to the National Assembly, I accept the outstretched hand of Manon [Massé] and Gabriel [Nadeau-Dubois]. I live in the North, I know how public services are less accessible and difficult to navigate, especially for Aboriginal people,” said Ms.me Labrecque-Saganash on Sunday during a press conference.
She has the support of the two co-spokespersons for Québec solidaire in this investiture. Mr. Nadeau-Dubois stressed that the young woman is a “long-time accomplice”, they also collaborated together in the collective Faut qu’on se parle in 2017. He praised her “courage”, because he n t is not easy for “for a young Aboriginal woman to make the leap into politics in a context where elected officials, particularly elected women, are the target of so much hatred and discrimination, especially on social media”.
Mme Labrecque-Saganash wants to be the voice of the communities living in northern Quebec, which are bearing the brunt of the labor shortage, particularly in the health network, and the housing crisis, for example. “After years of right-wing government that have destroyed the social safety net and public services in Quebec, it is time to rethink our systems and stop pretending that northern Quebec does not exist,” said the one who lives in in Waswanipi, in Eeyou Istchee Baie-James.
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With the election of elected natives, she hopes that the other deputies of the National Assembly will be more respectful of the First Nations. She accuses François Legault of considering them as “interest groups”. “I can understand that in the National Assembly, it’s easy to make decisions when the people concerned are not in the room. Me when I’m going to be there, I encourage these people who say enormities towards my people to do so by looking me in the eye, ”she said.
“We Aboriginals, just by our presence in legislative spaces, we will be able to do a lot of education for the people who sit in the Assembly,” added Ms.me Labrecque-Saganash. Mme Labrecque-Saganash is the daughter of lawyer, negotiator and former New Democratic Party MP Roméo Saganash in the federal riding of Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou.