… certainly in my home province. From the CBC a few minutes ago:

B.C. Liberal MLA Mike Morris is under fire after comments he made in the legislature on Monday, suggesting that funding committed to Indigenous languages in the province would be better spent on policing resources.

The province announced $50 million in funding toward preserving and revitalizing Indigenous languages throughout the province in the NDP government’s budget last week. …

Morris is the former B.C. public safety minister and before entering politics spent 32 years in the RCMP.  …

“They’re sad comment from the Liberals, but it’s not surprising, and that’s the saddest part of it all,” said Bob Chamberlin, chief councillor for the Kwikwasut’inuxw Haxwa’mis First Nation and vice-president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs.

Chamberlain said instead of attacking the funding for Indigenous languages, the investment should be applauded.

“It’s a way to save a vital component of our people, all the way across British Columbia,” he said.

“The fact that the MLA spoke about the alcoholism, the drug addiction and so on — and the need to take this money for better policing — it just perpetuates a negative stereotype that needs to be overcome.

“I think that he needs to do a lot more reading on the history of Canada and relationship to First Nations people.”

… and over in Saskatchewan as well …