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Jeff Copenace

Chief of the Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation (Treaty #3, Ontario) and former Indigenous advisor to Prime Minister Paul Martin during the Kelowna Accord era.

Oct 27, 2026

26:43
Does it worry you that there wasn't like anything more than just a verbal commitment to meet again?
26:51
It does.
26:52
We were told to watch the budget next week.
26:56
We're told that there's some money coming for emergency response.
27:00
We heard that there's going to be a commitment to First Nation policing, which is really welcome.
27:05
Again, we're the kind of community in Onigamon because we're in a state of emergency that when we see cops, we cheer for them because we just don't see them enough.
27:11
You know, my message, which I wasn't able to speak today, I was hoping that I might get a chance to speak on behalf of the OJB's of Onegaming, but I wanted to reiterate something that I said in the earlier interview, that I don't see enough investment in the most vulnerable in the country.
27:49
And did you feel the absence of the premiers that didn't show up?

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