The Winnipeg-based Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)usually flies below the radar of most non-aboriginal people but it has been breaking new ground on the Bruce Carson story that, of course, involves a water contract for reserves and the young ex-hooker from Ottawa. Some of the coverage has infuriated the Assembly of First Nations. APTN says Carson met with AFN chief Shawn Atleo and, among other things, promised to help him scrap the Indian Act. (click on the title to read the story.)The AFN went ballistic in a media release:
"The Assembly of First Nations is appalled at the attempt to smear the national First Nations organization and its National Chief by the television network whose mission is to present a fairer and more accurate picture of our peoples. In an effort to make headlines, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network has forgotten its mission statement and vision and initiated an attack that one might have expected from a less serious or principled organization. Simply put, it is outrageous for APTN to have insinuated as it did in its national news broadcast tonight that National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, or officials at the AFN, offered anything other than the normal courtesies to Mr. Bruce Carson or H2O Pros, a commercial enterprise with which Carson claimed to have no financial relationship."
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