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One of the leaders of Quebec’s far-right group La Meute claims that while he has no Indigenous ancestry, he is “aboriginal.”

“If you’re a second generation Quebecer, you are Aboriginal in the literal sense of the word,” said Sylvain Maikan, in a Facebook post published Tuesday. “My family has been here for 400 years … I am Aboriginal.”

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Maikan appears to be placing the status of second-generation Quebecers on equal footing with the 11 distinct Indigenous nations who’ve been in the province for thousands of years. His comments were immediately rebuked by Mohawk chief Serge Simon, who called Maikan’s statement “insulting and outrageous.”

“As long as we’re still here, he can’t claim squat,” said Simon, Grand Chief of the Kanesatake Mohawk Council. “Indigenous people have been in Quebec for thousands of years. Honestly, I don’t even know where to begin with this, my mind is going in a hundred different directions.”