Trudeau reacts after AFN chief says headdress taken from plane cabin [Video]

OTTAWA –

After the Assembly of First Nations’ national chief complained to Air Canada about how staffers treated her and her ceremonial headdress on a flight this week, she says the airline responded by offering a 15 per cent discount on her next flight.

“It must have been a generic response,” Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said in an interview, calling the entire experience “humiliating” and “unbelievable.”

Woodhouse Nepinak said in a social-media post Thursday her headdress and its case were taken away and put in a garbage bag.

She clarified Friday the case was removed from the flight, but she was able to hold her headdress throughout the trip after pleading with staff.

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Air Canada said in a statement Friday morning that it reached out directly to Woodhouse Nepinak to apologize and “better understand” her experience. It added it is also following up on the …