Wow. Pure racism and classism in one.

“Just look at their homes. I can understand to be poor, but you can be poor and clean,” he added.

Also demonstrating that he, in fact, cannot understand what it is to be poor. Maintenance costs time and money, and the poorer you are, the less you have of both.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The mayor of South Bruce Peninsula has resigned after he was caught on tape making racist comments about a nearby First Nation community, the Ontario town announced in a statement Tuesday.

Garry Michi was recorded in an audio clip posted Friday by an anonymous individual questioning the federal government’s decision to fund a water treatment plant on the Chippewas of the Nawash Unceded First Nation, also known as Cape Croker.

The comments drew immediate fire from Indigenous groups that called for Michi’s resignation, which came following an in-camera meeting Tuesday at the township office.

“I had to play [the clip] a couple of times because it was an unreal kind of moment that a mayor in 2023 during the year of reconciliation would come out with such comments with racial overtones,” Nadjiwon said.

He said comments like Michi’s continue to enforce racist and colonial mentalities, and blame First Nations communities for being deprived of basic human rights and adequate services.

“Sadly, this is not an isolated event and is a continuation of a historical pattern of racism, small mindedness and intolerance that all First Nations people face,” read the statement posted Sunday.

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