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Why is Ontario Premier Doug Ford apologising to First Nation Ministers? Watch
Ontario Premier Doug Ford issued an apology for his controversial remarks after meeting with First Nations chiefs on Bill had warned that First Nations cannot 'keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government' if they oppose mining or other resource projects – comments Indigenous leaders condemned as Premier met on June 19 with chiefs from the Anishinabek Nation, which represents 39 of Ontario's 133 First Nations chiefs, to discuss his government's contentious legislation to speed up resource projects, known as Bill the previously scheduled meeting at Queen's Park was overshadowed by comments the Premier had made a day earlier.
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