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27 May 2024

‘Language is identity’: First Nation legislator to make history at Ontario legislature

Author: admintech | Filed under: Finance/ Money
Ontario NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa poses for a photo at Queen's Park in Toronto on Friday, May 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury.