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There was very little about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Saskatchewan last week that merits him getting the benefit of the doubt.

But it’s largely partisannonsense that Trudeau behaved badly in that secretively recorded clip in which he demonstrated his frustrations with the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN). If anything, it underscores the legitimate exasperation politicians of all stripes at all levels have felt after having to deal with tactics and grandstanding of First Nations politicians.

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If we are ever to move forward, this must change.

The first reason why the FSIN doesn’t deserve much sympathy is that they actually did get a rather substantive time allotment from the Prime Minister of Canada. It was really up to them and Chief Bobby Cameron to use that time wisely, but there seemed little interest in doing so.

“The original plan was eight people around the table or so, representing all the different regions, bringing forward concerns … and the first section took 45 minutes, and every single person spoke around the table,” Trudeau said in the clip posted on YouTube Sunday under the title “PMJT berates FSIN Chief.”