APTN interviews Tom Mulcair

I have just watched APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) anchor Cheryl McKenzie interview Tom Mulcair, and it's easy to see how First Peoples would be drawn to vote NDP in this election next Monday.  http://aptn.ca/news/


 Listening to questions from First Peoples across the country, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit folk, Mulcair replied in ways which told me that he has done his homework.  He has spent time visiting with First Peoples communities and organizations, and listening to their concerns, as well as having the benefit of his law experience and education, so that he knows and understands the legal ramification of the relationship between First Peoples and The Rest of Us, and he has been building the NDP platform to show respect for the nation-to-nation relationship that I have never heard from any other Canadian government leader.

I find that very hopeful.

At the end of the interview, Cheryl said that, in its 16-year history,  no sitting prime minister had ever agreed to appear on APTN, so she asked Mulcair: "If you become prime minister, will you come back to be interviewed?",  to which Mulcair replied: "It would be an honour."  That brought tears to my eyes.

Cheryl also pointed out that Stephen Harper had refused the invitation to be interviewed.

Elizabeth May ad Justin Trudeau were interviewed, also by Cheryl, earlier this week.

APTN will also be reporting election coverage on Monday, October 19.