AFN chief says Sen. Beyak’s letters ‘discredit’ the Senate, calls for sanctions

Sen. Beyak responds that some letters are ‘edgy’ and ‘probably offensive to some,’ but not racist.

Perry Bellegarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, has asked Senators to pull down unaffiliated Senator Lynn Beyak's Senate website over derogatory letters about Indigenous people posted there. Sen. Beyak says the letters are not racist, and that 'both sides' of the Residential Schools story must be told. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade, The Hill Times file photograph

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

March 20, 2018

The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is calling on Senators to consider sanctioning unaffiliated Senator Lynn Beyak over racist letters posted on her website. Perry Bellegarde made the request in a March 16 letter a...

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