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Some Indigenous leaders reject PM's 'out of touch' housing comments

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Don’t tell Carol McBride housing isn’t a primary federal responsibility. 

As a former chief, McBride remembers being in a housing crisis when she led the Timiskaming First Nation in northwestern Quebec — and that was in the 1990s.

Now president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada in Ottawa, she was dismayed to hear Prime Minister Justin Trudeau try to distance his government from the housing file last month.

“It led me to believe that he’s totally out of touch with Indigenous issues,” McBride said, adding that on-reserve housing is a federal responsibility.

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“We count on the federal government, for sure, for housing. For

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