Attawapiskat Canada’s shame, Part V
Canada’s national shame has reached international proportions.
“The third-party manager sent by the federal government to handle the desperate housing situation in Attawapiskat in northern Ontario has been asked by the band to leave, CBC News has confirmed”
But that’s not a post on a local blog or news site.
Instead, it’s from Nigeria online.
Also see:
When I first wrote about the troubles experienced by this northern Ontario First Nation reserve, “Canada is spending a fortune in foreign aid to help impoverished countries,” I said, going on:
“There’s nothing wrong with that. But charity should also be applied equally at home and in Canada, we have impoverished First Nations whose people are treated as third or fourth class citizens —- if they’re lucky enough to be considered at all while millions of dollars in government largess go abroad.”
“As someone who has lived on two different reserves in Manitoba, the images of Attawapiskat are not shocking but normal. “Houses” that are little more than shacks, boarded up windows, missing doors, custom paint jobs of gang related graffiti; no indoor plumbing or electricity,” says Eve Arany in the Ottawa Citizen, continuing:
“Starving animals wander around, digging through the garbage-lined streets. There are limited community resources, watered down education and little incentive or opportunities for people to seek further education and employment”.
December 12th, 2011 at 1:58 pm
This appears to be “Part V”, rather than “VI”.
But seriously, the First Nations and other groups have always suffered from not being bankers.
December 13th, 2011 at 12:06 am
Correct. Blush