Paddy Hajdu, MP for Thunder Bay, Ont.

Paddy Hajdu, MP for Thunder Bay, Ont., said First Nation students arriving in the city to attend school are made to feel less welcome than refugees or other minorities arriving to the city. “It’s appalling, it’s ashaming for my community, but for our country as well, that Indigenous young people who come to Thunder Bay to study are subjected to racism that includes things like people flinging things out of cars at them or demeaning hate speech that they face,” Hajdu said. An inquest is currently underway into the deaths of seven First Nations students in Thunder Bay. Witnesses have described racist treatment in the city.