Winnipeg police say former New Democrat MP Romeo Saganash has been charged with sexual assault.
Police say they arrested Saganash on June 27 in relation to an allegation from Might 1 in Winnipeg and the matter is now earlier than the courts.
Saganash represented the northern Quebec driving of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou from 2011 to 2019, serving because the Indigenous affairs critic.
He has not responded to a request for remark The Canadian Press despatched by e mail on Friday, however APTN, which first broke the information, experiences he confirmed the sexual-assault cost to them. The federal NDP has not responded to a request for remark.
Saganash had been one of many residential faculty survivors working with a nationwide advisory committee for lacking kids and unmarked burials arrange by the federal authorities and Nationwide Centre for Reality and Reconciliation in Winnipeg.
A spokesman for the centre stated Saganash not holds that function, and didn’t present any additional info.