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 May 1 in Winnipeg and the matter is now earlier than the courts.
Saganash represented the northern Quebec using 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 electronic mail on Friday, however APTN, which first broke the news, 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 college survivors working with a nationwide advisory committee for lacking youngsters and unmarked burials arrange by the federal authorities and National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg.
A spokesman for the centre mentioned Saganash now not holds that position, and didn’t say why or when he ended that place.
Saganash, a Cree lawyer, helped to barter the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As an MP, he put ahead proposed laws to implement it in Canada.
