White supremacist group tricks Regina into declaring 'European Heritage Week'

Regina Mayor Michael Fougere says a white supremacist group tricked the city into proclaiming "European Heritage Week."

Regina is backtracking on a proclamation after a white supremacist group tricked the city into declaring “European Heritage Week.”

Mayor Michael Fougere says he recently signed off on a request from a group to declare the week in October.

He says he didn’t realize that the Nationalist Party of Canada was behind the request.

Fougere says all proclamation requests are screened before they’re approved, and that this one was simply stated and didn’t seem harmful on paper.

With files from The Canadian Press