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Bennett apologizes after Wilson-Raybould calls out her Pension? message as racist
Crown−Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett has apologized after she was called out for a one−word text message to Independent MP Jody Wilson−Raybould.
Bennett messaged the word Pension? in response to Wilson−Raybould’s tweet seeking concrete federal action as a Saskatchewan First Nation announced 751 unmarked graves have been found on the site of a former Indigenous residential school in that province.
The pension response was in reaction to Wilson−Raybould’s further call that the prime minister quit his selfish jockeying for a federal election Wilson−Raybould says no one wants.