Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine won’t lose her job over comments she made online about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Manitoba’s premier Wab Kinew said in a statement. Fontaine was told to apologize instead.

Kinew’s cabinet minister, Fontaine, reshared a post on Instagram on Thursday that called the slain 31-year-old political commentator a “racist, xenophobic, transphobic, Islamophobic” individual. Extending condolences to Kirk’s family, Fontaine went on to say that she has “absolutely no empathy” for him. “The man stood for nothing but hate,” her post, in part and since removed, read.

While speaking to reporters on Friday, Kinew said, “It would be too easy to show her the door. It is a much harder task to say we’re going to work through this together and I am going to try to help you

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