Wallace Fox will not run for chief in upcoming Onion Lake Cree Nation election

Wallace Fox will not run for chief in the upcoming June 15 Onion Lake Cree Nation election, the Meridian Booster is reporting. He tells the paper that concerns from some of the Nation’s membership—a letter asking for his resignation was sent to council in November 2015— and personal considerations led to the decision, which was not to be seen as a resignation, he asserted.

“At this point in my life, right now, I don’t want to see myself as an old, old man, sitting in leadership and politics, when there is a personal life that you can live,” Fox is quoted. “In the public eye, you’re always under scrutiny; you can’t really be able to have your own life.”

Fox led the battle against the First Nations Transparency Act, but also has had some personal problems with charges from alleged domestic violence, which will be heard at trial scheduled for June in Lloydminster, Sask. He also laments his decision to gain entry to Centre Block on Parliament Hill in 2013 demanding an audience with prime minister Stephen Harper during an Idle No More protest.

 “I wish I had never done that,” he said.

Read the interview in the Booster at http://www.meridianbooster.com/2016/02/29/wallace-fox-bows-out-of-electo...