Doug Ford and MPP Sol Mamakwa during question period.Mamakwa, the NDP’s Indigenous and treaty relations critic and the representative for the riding of Kiiwetinoong, was trying to ask a question about the government’s COVID-19 vaccination plan for urban indigenous communities.
That subject, however, was drowned out by Ford accusing Mamakwa of jumping the queue to get his shot. Even as the controversy fades, the issue Mamakwa tried to raise has not. ‘I got a little personal,’ Doug Ford says of suggestion Indigenous MPP jumped vaccine queue While certain public health units in Ontario are focusing on vaccinating Indigenous residents, a comprehensive provincewide strategy for those who live in big cities is still something that remains.