The border issue Indigenous communities are talking about this election [Video]

Members of Ottawa’s Indigenous community say they’re worried about the impact Canada-U.S. relations could have on friends and family who live on reserves near or severed by the American border.

CBC went to the Odawa Native Friendship Centre to find out what voters there are thinking about ahead of the federal election. In several conversations, border mobility came up as a pressing concern.

Michele Bourque is a retired federal public servant who was taking part in a quilting class at the non-profit Odawa centre, which provides a variety of programming for Ottawa’s urban Indigenous population.

She’s from the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in southwestern Ontario, which sits just across the border from Port Huron, Mich.

“I worry about people going back and forth, and I know …