Federal funding for Ring of Fire roads attacks Indigenous jurisdiction and makes a mockery of the regional assessment(Neskantaga) Neskantaga First Nation condemns Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Doug Ford’s October 21 announcement committing up to $1 billion in federal funding over three years, matching Ontario’s initial investment, to advance roads serving Ring of Fire mining development.
  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
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    1 day ago

    To Carney and Ford, if you cannot hear us now, you will hear us when we meet you face-to-face on the land

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    They have been under a boil water advisory since 1995. Can you imagine??

    For almost two decades—from 1996 to 2015—an arbitrary cap on the base budget of the Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC), the federal department that funds and regulates water and sanitation infrastructure on reserves, limiting INAC to a 2% annual increase “regardless of population growth, inflation, or need.”  The funding constraints were first imposed under Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (1993–2003), and maintained during the premiership of Stephen Harper (2006–2015). These funding caps were criticized by the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation, who “warned that imposing this type of cap can slow down the progressive realization of human rights, or worse, lead to retrogression”.By November 2015, there were 105 DWAs in First Nations communities.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_drinking_water_advisories

    Genocide is the only word.