NDP Leader Wab Kinew has introduced a private member's bill to recognize Metis leader Louis Riel as the honorary first premier of the province.

The Progressive Conservative government would have to support the bill in order for it to pass.

That will likely have to wait because it isn't expected to come to a vote before March.

Riel was central to the Red River and North-West rebellions to assert Indigenous rights, before getting hanged in Saskatchewan in 1885 for treason.

A motion passed in Parliament in 1992 recognized him as the founder of Manitoba and the province celebrates a statutory holiday on the third Monday in February as Louis Riel Day.