A Manitoba cabinet minister has offered a public apology after reposting an Instagram message filled with disparaging commentary about conservative activist Charlie Kirk on the day after he was shot and killed in the United States.

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine shared a message from @che_jim, a U.S.-based Indigenous activist, for several hours Thursday on her Instagram page before removing it.

The post criticized Kirk as a "racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic" individual who "stood for nothing but hate."

In response to a request from CBC Manitoba, Fontaine's press secretary on Friday released a statement from the minister.

"I apologize for sharing a post yesterday on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Violence has no place in our democracy. Political debate is achieved with wor

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