Last year, she publicly defended the pro-Holocaust remarks of David Ahenakew, the former Assembly of First Nations national chief. Ahenakew told a reporter that Jews were a "disease" and that Hitler was right to have "fried six million of those guys," Horn wrote in the MNN that Ahenakew was referring only to Jewish "financial and media barons" and argued that Hitler deserved admiration because he "made sure the people had employment and good health."