I'm Indigenous from northern Ontario and we have family all over the province. A month ago I had a group of friends tell me that they crossed over for day shopping over at Cornwall.

I told them that was stupid because they were brown non-white native people and that there was a high chance they would get in trouble.

They didn't care and said that all that was just stuff that happened somewhere else and wouldn't happen to them.

Now it worries me that at some point, we're going to hear news of some stupid thing happening soon where a group of native people will just get in trouble at a border crossing just because they were dumb enough to go there.