National Chief reflects on difficult year on first day of the AFN Special Chiefs assembly – APTN News
Dec 02, 2025
Opening the 2025 edition of the Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa this morning, National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak reflected on a year marked by struggle.
She saluted Ontario chiefs for fighting against the Progressive Conservative government’s Bill 5, Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025, which aims to deregulate mining, resource, and infrastructure development.
At the same time, she noted many of those chiefs were fighting a second front against wildfires encroaching upon their Nations.
