Update: Barrette backtracks as Indigenous leaders call for his resignation

Health Minister Gaétan Barrette appeared to backtrack Thursday on controversial recorded remarks he had made, saying he was sure that within six months a parent from a northern Inuit community would be barred from a medevac flight because of intoxication.
Barrette stopped short of apologizing unreservedly for his remarks, suggesting that some people might have misinterpreted what he said.
“I’m profoundly sorry that people are making that kind of assumption,” Barrette tol