Cuthand: Indigenous people have different relationship with party politics

Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party made two fateful mistakes in the appointment of Jody Wilson-Raybould.
First, they underestimated her commitment to the law and her ethical framework that put the law before political expedience. Second, they didn’t realize that she came to government with an Indigenous agenda that superseded party politics.
Indigenous people have an interesting relationship with party politics; we see it as a means to an end and not an end in itself. We don’t rega