Air Canada apologies to AFN chief for taking away headdress during flight
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- čas přidán 25. 04. 2024
- Air Canada is apologizing after the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) national chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said her headdress was taken from her on a flight and mishandled by staff.
The national chief and the prime minister say it's an unfortunate reminder that airlines need to do better in treating sacred or religious items with dignity.
But as the national chief tells Melissa Ridgen, the ordeal has a silver lining and she has high praise for fellow passengers who tried to help.
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Perpetual victimhood.
It’s THEIR COUNTRY…. Not yours….‼️👀
@@Thetraveller411 Wrong, but you are not bright.
@@Thetraveller411 wrong. They were conquered hundreds of years ago.
Do you have a victim card with no expiry date. amazing, our children and our children’s children and her children’s children children’s will hear the same nonsense
@@MyHandelsMessiah nailed it
This lady needs to stop being an attention seeker.
Not saying it was a safety risk but maybe they (Air Canada) saw it this way. It's a commercial flight on a commercial airline. They have the right to decide what's allowed or not allowed.
It was a clear bag I dont see the big deal..
Agree re the bags🇨🇦🐝
But, but they were "GARBAGE BAGS" to try to tug on heartstrings implying that Air Canada treated the headdress like "Garbage", which they didn't.
Sure, AC needs to be more respectful of other cultures, but also the Chief also needs to stop trying to purposely frame things in a way to "up the drama."
What is more reasonable? AC takes sacred head dress, wraps it in a clear plastic bag and places it in storage? Or passenger keeps it unprotected at her feet or crammed in with other baggage in overhead? Who is showing more respect?
IF safety is the flying criteria, why not to follow??? IF there is such a rule, then Rule is rule, not discrediting anyone. Are the FN's, AO's and Native Citizens over and above rules and laws??? PS: They seem to have most noises on almost everything out of other noise-making fellows. IF they join the military and are required to wear helmat, should the Defence Minister to apologize for asking them to follow suit ???
Yes they want freedom from taxes but benifits of all
Keep embarrassing yourselves.
Exactly.
I will always embarrased myself if it means protecting my culture.
@@bobbyboucher4101 Get a grip on yourself, seriously...
I’m going to bring my oversized tinfoil hat next flight as I’m a conspiracy theorist and the airline better accommodate and bend the rules.
😂
Exactly.
Good one😂
You think that's the same as a chief's headdress?
@dsab381 it doesn't matter, he could claim its part of his culture or heritage. They would have to respect it.
Or is she more important than another Canadian citizen? Cause she hasn't done anything to deserve more respect from me than anyone else.
Weak leader makes weak People
Exactly.
Do you know her?
I do know what I see
@@bobbyboucher4101 Are you triggered?
@@Rocksteady-hl2ks No
Don’t travel with it then. Like the Crown Jewels.
It’s THEIR COUNTRY…. Not yours….‼️👀
@@Thetraveller411 Prove it!
Just because someone's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father crapped in the woods, "somewhere" in Canada, doesn't mean you own ALL of it!
Land is NOT like water, you don't put your toe in and it's a ripple effect!
@@Thetraveller411 Pull your head out from wherever it is you have it stuck, seriously....
Good God, let’s have a little practicality. Get over it. This is not newsworthy.
Headdresses are symbols and not everyone gets one. Treating her own headdress as a tool for visibility and victimhood shows that she doesn't deserve it.
The FN are comical....
On a q400 I don’t want the person sitting next to me having a 60L trash can size container on their lap. Backpacks are too big for those planes
Crazy.., what’s next, religious ppl will all wear their sacred garb . Get a life in today’s world girl
It’s THEIR COUNTRY…. Not yours….‼️👀
@@Thetraveller411 Everything built on this land is not by them though.
@@Thetraveller411it's everyone's. If we are going to say they were here first so it's their rules then the plane they are flying on, up in the sky is not theirs. I'll bet you'd be the first to complain if that oversized headdress constantly brushed up against you.
@@Thetraveller411Get a grip on yourself already, seriously...
@@Thetraveller411 Prove it!
Just because someone's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father crapped in the woods, "somewhere" in Canada, doesn't mean you own ALL of it!
Land is NOT like water, you don't put your toe in and it's a ripple effect!
Yeah like that fits on plane
I think she was after money and 15 minutes of fame.
At least she's getting plenty to eat
So what?!? She must be the chief of the karen tribe
OK, HITF does this get to the PM of Canada ?Then he publicly comments and scolds Air Canada. Lol...I think that if you want special treatment, then just make arrangements ahead of time. If that were a regular PALE folk like myself, I'd get roughed up and no one off the plane would ever know.
She twisted this into the worst version it could be
From the pics and vids of the incident, it looks like the staff took extra care and showed respect. The clear bag is not a garbage bag and protected the piece from being wet. NO other piece of luggage gets this type of care. The Q400 is a small aircraft that requires sky check for almost all carry-on due to limited space. In the future buy an extra seat for the head dress ( other passengers do this when they fly with their expensive guitars or cello etc) if other passengers take the extra care for non-cultural items it might be appropriate for you to do the same. Also, it's a little disappointing that as a Chief representing your people, you are trying to turn this into an issue of malicious disrespect when it wasn't. The head dress didnt go under the aircraft just in the back and you got it back as soon as you stepped off the aircraft, its the same as if the flight attendant moved it to an overhead space feather back. Just my opinion but you would have done better by just thanking the staff for taking good care of your items and the nation would have respected you more for it.
This 1000%.
I’m sorry, but if she’s so involved with her culture, perhaps she should’ve walked to her destination as that’s what aboriginal people did before western settlers brought horses
Exactly.
it’s the glasses they all wear that kills me, take off the colonizers lenses!
You just know that there is a LOT more to this story than we are being told. Did she pay for a carry on? Or just assume she can do whatever she wanted?
Most likely the latter part?
Good god there are homeless people dying. Why didn't Air Canada or the Prime Minister do something when Air Canada lost my sacred underwear? Who cares?
Boo hoo 😢
National tragedy in Canada. The world turned appart, close to WWIII, and the woke culture tearing off their garments for a freaking isolated issue.
Chief: turn the page and move on.
I imagine trudeau compensating in millions and now declaring April 23 a new holiday of Reconciliation.
If you are going to rack up taxpayer funded airmiles, you might as well wear your headdress.
I would care a lot more about this if they paid taxes like the rest of us.
This nonsense has went on long enough. Time to join society like the rest of us.
The photograph being used of the overhead compartment (provided by Woodhouse) is not of the plane in question. The Dash 8 overhead storage and seats are smaller and do not have a "Reserved for Business Class" sticker as there are only Economy seats in a Dash 8. Furthermore, on Thursday she stated the Headdress and case when stowed, on Friday she confirmed only the case was stowed and the headdress remained in her possession. Air Canada was only following flight safety protocol and as a National chief perhaps she could have communicated more effectively with the staff instead of making this another false accusation of victimhood.
Notice the brown (not black)hair. Oh so traditional colour from a box.
What?
@@irespondtotheads7453 Cultural appropriation
good thing she didnt bring the BIG one ! :)
"You can't make this stuff up"
OH! Yes you can!
She just did!
I guess a law suit will follow, and so will the multi million dollar pay out?
The Canadian tax payer is getting tired of this!
The headress is too big for the overhead bin & doesn't belong on the plane, its spiritual signifigance should have been comminicated at check in to ensure its proper handling, that should be enough, this attention seeking women shouldnt get another second of consideration
I'd like to get the prime ministers ear about my not being able to get my ID
😂
Air Canada is the worst airline I will never fly with them
And you're who exactly?
As if you ever have??? Ha ha ha!
Respect all around. Unfortunate but it was realized and properly addressed.
It is a cultural headwear item...seems that others are allowed to wear theirs onboard...so, out of fairness..figure they should just stop banning headwear altogether.
Shame
These embarrassments often happen when you steal other people's country.
Not very bright, are you...
@@Rocksteady-hl2ks I'm not a thief.
@@marymarr3 No, that is western colonialism, new to this planet are you?
I am a descendent of Neanderthals and I want my world back……………………….. I want to be able to travel with my dead mammoth tooth.
@@Notlaughinganymore. And then you woke up. I bet you're not laughing anymore. rofl
Independent thinking-is not Air Canadas strong point.
Wow disgusting treatment. J Treadau a complete joke when he did blackface and wore war bonnets.
Get a grip on yourself already, seriously....
Air Canada and our Prime minister of Canada should have more than having a public apology isn't fair because, east indians are aloud to wear their turban headdresses on Air Canada flights after the day of 911 and I think that Grand Chief should be compensated due to having her Native Traditional Headdress taken away from her from Air Canada.... I wish I could meet our prime minister of Canada in person cause our first nations communities and ones who lives off their communities should be entitled to housing but, pay for it each month like a mortgage rent to own...
They can save their fake apologies, it's pur discrimination and rasism..,
Get a grip on yourself already, seriously...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. I have to say it though. Imbeciles are f..king funny No?.
No it's actually not. it's someone who doesn't pay taxes being an entitled Karren and it just makes the country you live in laugh at you all the more.
This was some entitled woman getting her 15 seconds of fame. Wow, she has it! Hope she's happy, I'm sure everyone else on that flight wasn't. Air Canada showed her more respect than she showed to anyone else. I'm not even a fan of Air Canada. I'm frustrated that they caved and apologized. They were only following rules. Nobody should be above them. I don't care what race.
This is entitlement, nothing more.
History of Canada 🇨🇦:
In 2023, Canada is 156. Its age is counted since confederation in 1867, when it officially became a country.
History of Indigenous Peoples:
First Nations peoples had settled and established trade routes across what is now Canada by 500 BCE - 1,000 CE. Communities developed each with its own culture, customs, and character.
That’s my point for all the replies.🫡✊
Prove it!
Just because someone's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand father crapped in the woods, "somewhere" in Canada, doesn't mean you own ALL of it!
Land is NOT like water, you don't put your toe in and it's a ripple effect!
Get a grip on yourself already, seriously...
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“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” - Nelson Mandela 🥂🥂
Please learn and respect First Nations traditions and culture, they’ve first right in this country and this country belongs to them. 🫡✊
No it doesn't; get a grip on yourself already, seriously...
(You people are pure entertainment)
No actually it doesn't. Nobody are above rules, thats why they are in place.