For most of us, a kilometre is a decent distance to walk to just buy groceries. For Leo Baskatawang, four thousand and four hundred kilometres was worth it to go to seek justice for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada.

Leo, a 32-year-old Masters student, decided earlier this year that something needed to be done. He had watched the coverage of the Crown-First Nations summit in January, and realized that the government was giving short-shrift to Aboriginal issues. "That was the last straw," he said of the summit.

Marchers set off from Victoria Island to Parliamant Hill after a brief ceremony.

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.