{"id":9162,"date":"2014-05-07T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T08:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2014-05-07T16:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T08:52:09","slug":"executive-committee-to-lead-afn-until-new-leader-is-chosen-to-replace-atleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/07\/executive-committee-to-lead-afn-until-new-leader-is-chosen-to-replace-atleo\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive committee to lead AFN until new leader is chosen to replace Atleo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Shawn-Atleo-Ahousaht-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9163\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Shawn-Atleo-Ahousaht-2009.jpg\" alt=\"Shawn-Atleo-Ahousaht-2009\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Shawn-Atleo-Ahousaht-2009.jpg 450w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Shawn-Atleo-Ahousaht-2009-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Facebook Page of Shawn Atleo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8211; The executive committee of the Assembly of First Nations will lead the organization until a new leader is chosen to replace Shawn Atleo.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec regional chief Ghislain Picard will be the executive committee&#8217;s spokesman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"left_sidebar\"><\/div>\n<p>A special chiefs assembly is scheduled to be held in Ottawa on May 27-28 to discuss timelines for the leadership vote.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Atleo called a snap news conference and abruptly quit, saying he wanted to avoid being a distraction in the ongoing debate over the Conservative government&#8217;s proposed changes to First Nations education.<\/p>\n<p>Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt&#8217;s office has put the controversial legislation on hold until the assembly determines its next steps.<\/p>\n<p>Some First Nations groups had criticized Atleo for supporting the bill.<\/p>\n<p>They say if passed, the legislation would strip away their rights and give the federal government too much control over the education of their children.<\/p>\n<p>But Valcourt&#8217;s office has defended Bill C-33, dubbed the First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act, saying it meets the five conditions outlined by the AFN and chiefs during a meeting in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Facebook Page of Shawn Atleo &nbsp; OTTAWA &#8211; The executive committee of the Assembly of First Nations will lead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2954],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","tag-shawn-atleo","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}