BY JASON THOMPSON
Former cabinet minister Chris Hodgson, who is now president of the Ontario Mining Association, made news headlines last week regarding the Ipperwash inquiry.
Former Ontario deputy solicitor-general Elaine Todres testified Nov. 30 at the public inquiry into the shooting death of Dudley George, a native protester killed by OPP officers at Ipperwash Provincial Park in southern Ontario that Hodgson made racial remarks when he was a minister of natural resources in the Mike Harris government.
According to the Toronto Star, Todres testified that, ?He (Hodgson) said, ?Get those f------ Indians out of my park,? at a 1995 cabinet meeting prior to George's murder.
"She's totally mistaken, there's 10 other people under oath that said I didn't say anything at that meeting, and I certainly didn't say that," said Hodgson.
"I'm going to give testimony in January and I'll be stating that I didn't say that or anything like that."
The inquiry has no record of the slur as Todres also testified that it is unlikely that notes were taken during the meeting.
