Investigation of leader of the Liberal Party candidate

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, said that it has launched an investigation on the comments reported by its candidate in a Quebec riding North.

A press release by the NDP accused Liberal candidate André Forbes to make disparaging remarks about the Innu and First Nations people. The press release said that he is a former leader of the white of Rights Association, the Association for the rights of whites, Sept-Iles, Que..

Forbes would have referred to Aboriginal people as "featherheads" in an interview with the news published in October 2004:

"" Do you know how much a featherhead costs? ". It is the brutal question, that I was asked by André Forbes, President of the Association for the rights of whites in Sept-?les, in September 2002, at the controversy surrounding the agreement in principle with the community Innu. Forbes was referring to how much it costs for the State to discharge its responsibilities towards Aboriginal people. Of course, he has the answer. "For you, this is the great;" 25 for a prisoner, 50 grand; for an Indian; "100 grand", "the magazine reported."

Ignatieff said that if the accounts are true, the remarks were totally unacceptable.

"They do not reflect Liberal values." As soon as I heard that these remarks have been made, or that he had been made in the past, I ordered an immediate investigation. As soon as the facts are back that we will take immediate action. ?

"I was shocked." I was shocked. "If he really said, this is not possible to remain a candidate for the Liberal Party of the Canada," he said.

Ignatieff said candidates have the right to defend itself.

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