glad more of the press is picking up Colin Mayes and racist remarks

Tory committee head should quit over 'racist’ e-mail: Liberals
January 25, 2007 / The Canadian Press

OTTAWA -- Liberals want a Conservative MP to resign as head of the Commons aboriginal affairs committee over his response to a racist e-mail.

At issue is a joke e-mail that refers to a native man as `Tonto’ and `chief.’

A British Columbia television station reported that Tory MP Colin Mayes received the e-mail and responded with a “good joke.”

Mayes didn’t deny the response when questioned, but said he didn’t mean to endorse such humour.

Native references have gotten Tories into trouble in the past.

Conservative MP Brian Fitzpatrick told a native-organized debate in 2000: “You can’t scalp me because I haven’t got much hair on top of my head.”