OTTAWA -- Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to remove RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki.

On Friday, in which he asks for Lucki to be replaced with someone 鈥渨ho will focus their attention on public safety and combatting racism.鈥� 

Citing several recent examples of issues related to the RCMP鈥檚 treatment of First Nations people, Bellegarde said the AFN has 鈥渓ost confidence鈥� in Lucki鈥檚 ability to keep her job as the head of Canada鈥檚 national police force.

Asked about the calls for her to be removed, Trudeau said that he鈥檚 heard concerns from Canadians about the 鈥渇unctioning鈥� of the RCMP but plans to work with Lucki to keep Canadians safe.

Later Friday, Singh tweeted that he supported Bellegarde鈥檚 call, saying she has 鈥渄efended the failure of the RCMP,鈥� and

The latest source of tensions between Indigenous people in Canada and the RCMP is the police force鈥檚 response to violence amid the ongoing dispute over Mi'kmaq lobster fishing rights in southwestern Nova Scotia. 

Earlier this week Lucki defended officers鈥� actions, after Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said Indigenous   

In an interview on CTV鈥檚 Power Play, Sipekne'katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack also backed the calls for Lucki to go. 鈥淯nfortunately from the top down it just seems there isn鈥檛 a big grip on the racism and what we go through,鈥� he said. 鈥淢aybe somebody else needs to be put in place that's well aware of racism and how well and alive it is.鈥� 

Lucki has also come under fire in recent months over remarks she鈥檚 made, including having to walk back her comments about whether she thought there was systemic racism in the RCMP, and what that looked like in practice.

After initially stating she struggled with 鈥渇ive or six鈥� definitions of systemic racism during an interview with CTV National News Chief Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme, Lucki acknowledged that there is racial discrimination within her organization, but not before calls came for her to be fired.  

At the time, Sen. Lillian Dyck called for Lucki to leave the RCMP or be let go, stating that 鈥渟he does not possess the necessary knowledge or skills to remain as the RCMP Commissioner.鈥�  

Despite the concerns raised, Trudeau said then that he still had confidence in Lucki's leadership and ability to follow through on police reform.