MNS Area Director Says She Was Threatened
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 13:26
An official with the Metis National Council says he’s been made aware of allegations that a Saskatchewan Metis leader was threatened at the group’s recent assembly.
Metis Nation – Saskatchewan Clearwater-Clear Lake area director Marlene Hansen says several people witnessed a fellow Saskatchewan delegate threaten her at the Ottawa meeting.
She says the individual in question said, “I can make your life hell” and “Watch me . . . I have the power to do it”.
MNC CEO Dale LeClair says he hasn’t received a formal complaint about it.
However, LeClair says he has been told the remarks were made while delegates were debating a contentious issue — and he admits people sometimes cross the line in that context.
Hansen has filed a complaint with police in Ottawa and the MN-S — and says there is no place for what happened to her.
MN-S president Robert Doucette calls it an “internal matter that has to be dealt with”.
Doucette says he is canvassing other members of the Provincial Metis Council to find out what exactly happened.
He says the issue will be brought up in the next Provincial Metis Council meeting next month.
Doucette adds any violence against any person is unacceptable and “we won’t stand for it”.