Local First Nations members and supporters gathered at Chesterman Beach on a stormy Saturday evening to demand a public apology from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for travelling to Tofino on the country’s first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
“It’s sad that we don’t expect much from leadership anymore. It’s sad that we have to stand here in the rain, in the middle of a pandemic following an election just to be heard, but here we are,” Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation member Hjalmer Wenstob said in front of the gathering of roughly 20 people outside the beachfront property the prime minister is currently staying in.