Is the national AFN chief exploiting the head dress controversy for all it's worth?

[blackbird]

We have been hearing about this controversy for days now.  The AFN chief carried a large head dress onto a passenger plane and the staff took it away and put it in a plastic bag because it was very large and should be in a luggage area, not the cramped seating area.  But perhaps they made a mistake and not respecting the fact this was the AFN  chief and FN consider such an item as very important.  So it was not handled appropriately.  But it should have been dealt with back in the airport and a plan worked out.  Perhaps the AFN chief should have realized she shouldn't be carrying such a large item onto the plane and other arrangements should have been made.  But she didn't.  Perhaps she should accept some responsibility for this fiasco as well.  Why would anyone think they can carry whatever they felt like into the passenger area which has limited space?  So then it became an  endless national news controversy that even the Prime Minister managed to get some mileage out of.

Seems it has been blown out of all proportion and the AFN chief is milking it for all its worth to increase the profile and rights of the AFN and FNs being discriminated against.  This is an ongoing saga which will never end.  There has to be money involved somewhere.  Maybe a financial settlement will be in the works.

 

Edited April 27, 2024 by blackbird

[I am Groot]

Yes. Like so many racial activists she loves to play the victim card.

[ExFlyer]

Screw her, make her take that oversize package and make her put it under the seat in front of her, like every one else.

Like someone else said, that headdress is not even anything "Canadian " aboriginal tribes wore. It was a plains indian thing from the US south.

[herbie]

Is the national AFN chief exploiting the head dress controversy for all it's worth?

No. But you sure as f*ck are.

[Moonlight Graham]

I don't know the luggage policy for delicate items but i'd say put it in a strong protective case, stick a GPS tracker inside it or something, and then do whatever everyone else does with these kinds of delicate and important items.  I mean musicians who don't fly privately put their delicate instruments somewhere too, inside a shell case.