Williams Lake City Councillor Marnie Brenner has issued an apology for comments she made about residential schools at a Council meeting Tuesday night.
The Williams Lake Indian Band was frustrated, calling for Councillor Brenner’s resignation and an apology from the City.
In a written statement Brenner said: “I would like to offer my sincere apology for my comments made at the Council meeting on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, and to clarify my position with some context.”
She continued: “As an Aboriginal woman adopted by a non-Aboriginal family in the 1960s, I have my own thoughts about reconciliation and other contemporary indigenous issues because of my lived experience. I acknowledge my words were poorly chosen and may have come across as insensitive and I apologize to those who thought they were a slight against survivors of residential schools and were hurt by them. This was not my intention.”
Comments made by Brenner on Tuesday’s Council Metting originally sparked the controversy.
– Original story by Pat Matthews, MyCaribooNow.com staff