Last week, the Bloc québécois MP Yvon Lévesque really made a fool of himself. He declared that his constituents in the far north riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik Eeyou would "never" elect a First Nations candidate. He was reacting to the news that a popular First Nations leader, Roméo Saganash, had just been nominated to stand for the NDP. It was an insult and an injury, suggesting a not-so-hidden racism against indigenous people, but also in a twisted way against the francophone Québécois. Lévesque had to backtrack, but he and his leader Gilles Duceppe refused to apologize.