“They thought that since we’re native we’d steal something.”NORTH BATTLEFORD, SASK.—A First Nations elder says he was humiliated when an employee searched him at a Canadian Tire store in Saskatchewan earlier this week. They go to Canadian Tire often to shop for gardening supplies or things for their vehicle and have never had an experience like this. Canadian Tire said in a statement that staff asked to inspect Albert’s belongings, as they normally would when an alarm goes off. “He said ‘sorry, sorry sorry.’ I said ‘that’s not going to help,’” he said. He said he told the manager that Canadian Tire had been one of his favourite stores in North Battleford.

Source: thestar December 22, 2017 00:33 UTC