Criticized for his absence from a summit on Monday in Ottawa between premiers and Indigenous representatives, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon will finally meet with representatives of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador (AFNQL) on Wednesday.
A spokesperson for the new PQ government announced this on Monday.
Last week, St-Pierre Plamondon’s team had suggested that he would not attend Monday’s federally organized meeting because the timeline was too tight, given the transition currently underway in Quebec City since the Oct. 5 election.
But the new Minister of Relations with First Nations and Inuit, Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay, also defended his leader’s decision.
In a social media post, he explained that the Quebec government meets with Indigenous nations directly, on a nation-to-nation basis, on its own territory—rather than at a table organized by the federal government, according to “its framework, schedule, and parameters, which remain very vague.”
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
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