Regina citizens’ complaint letter calls for councillor Terina Shaw’s removal
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A group of Regina residents have written a complaint letter in response to racist comments made by ward 7 city councillor Terina Shaw about Indigenous People.
A group of Regina residents have written a complaint letter to the city’s integrity commissioner in response to allegedly racist comments made by Ward 7 city councillor Terina Shaw about Indigenous Peoples.
Forty-seven people signed the letter for the integrity commissioner, Angela Kruk, asking her to investigate Shaw’s conduct at two 2022 city meetings.
During the Jan. 26 executive committee meeting, Shaw made comments about Indigenous men.
“I‘ve worked with Indigenous men,” Shaw said. “They’ve lived in my house. I’ve done it for years…. You talked about how they wouldn’t have sexual charges up against them. How can you show to the school board that this person doesn’t have sexual charges?”
The letter says her comments imply Indigenous men are sexual predators.
On June 15, Shaw made another comment about Indigenous Peoples and homelessness. The letter says Shaw’s comment perpetuates the ideas that Indigenous People are one homogenous group who share the same culture and that Indigenous People choose to be homeless and are not interested in having a home.
“I heard this once by an Indigenous person from RTSIS,” Shaw said on June 15. “She talked about people within the Indigenous culture that don’t want to have homes.”
Florence Stratton and Susana Deranger were the two individuals who decided to start the complaint letter. They felt the Shaw’s comments perpetuated racist, colonial stereotypes about Indigenous Peoples and violated Regina’s Code of Ethics bylaw, specifically:
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