The Manitoba NDP have lodged a complaint against the province’s education minister for what it calls racially motivated and demeaning comments made about Opposition Leader Wab Kinew.
The incident happened during Tuesday’s question period in the legislature, during an exchange between NDP MLA Nello Altomare and Education Minister Wayne Ewasko while debating Bill 35, also known as the Education Administration Amendment Act.
During one of his rebuttals, Ewasko made a comparison between NDP Leader Kinew and Manitoba-born Indigenous actor Adam Beach.
“I actually thought the member from Transcona [Altomare] was going to turn a leaf and maybe take, um, self-serving comments away from his leader of
