First Nations leaders, candidates reach out to mobilize Indigenous voters [Video]

Tania Cameron is logging a lot of time in her 2023 Ford Explorer these days.

“I’m already at 2,700 kilometres and 52 hours of drive time since the start of the campaign,” Cameron said on a recent visit to Washagamis Bay First Nation, about 20 minutes southwest of Kenora, Ont.

“I am doing my best to get to every little town, every big city and all the First Nations in the riding. That’s my goal. Whether I can get to all of it, we’ll see.”

Cameron is the NDP candidate for Kenora-Kiiwetinoong — the second-largest Ontario riding, covering one-third of the province. It’s home to 38 First Nations, many of them remote. 

It’s one of 36 ridings across the countrywhere the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) says the outcome of this federal election could be determined by First Nations voters. In these ridings, the percentage of First Nations voters is higher than 2021’s margin of victory or …