According to video footage, Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau threw a fit toward a council of First Nations chieftains this week, disparaging them for their "poor time management skills" after his meeting intended for reconciliation ran over-time.
"I am really, really upset about this," he said.
"It wasn’t for me to interrupt the previous speakers. [Chief] Bobby [Cameron], there shouldn’t have been every single person speaking for eight minutes in this meeting. That is not the spirit of reconciliation, of the nation-to-nation relationship we are supposed to have. And I am stuck with an absolute time cap at 9:05."
TheStar reported that Chief Bobby Cameron, who represents the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said the September meeting was ultimately a success, even if it ended poorly with the prime minister berating them for bad time management -- though he lamented the fact that “We require more time to discuss the many crises facing our First Nations communities.”