Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was greeted with booing when he revealed a new ‘Skoden’ tattoo at a public event in Edmonton on Thursday.
“Look, I’ve always been clear in my love of Sk-sk-ooh- Skoden,” Trudeau told reporters. “I’m not just trying to capitalize on something Indigenous Peoples are fond of just to try and score a few votes.”
Not everyone was buying it, however. Emily Fiddle, a Métis woman from Elizabeth River in northern Alberta, was in the crowd and one of the people who booed the display.
“If he thinks this is going to suddenly make us all love him again, he is sorely mistaken,” Fiddle said. “He probably doesn’t even know what Skoden means and I actually think that tattoo is just drawn on with pen.”
Meanwhile, police services across the country are grappling with what they call an ‘epidemic’ of Skoden messages being spray-painted on public buildings in towns and cities.
