Slop pails sent to reserves
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This article was published 21/04/2011 (5348 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Northern aboriginal leaders are angry that the federal government is continuing to let them live in third world conditions at reserves by sending them 999 slop pails and 805 45-gallon water pails.
The Island Lake Tribal Council says it asked Indian Affairs to help solve the water crisis on its four remote reserves.
“INAC is effectively condoning and perpetuating third world living conditions among first nations communities.”
They said the federal government has also ignored a proposal from the communities given last November to address the needs with a partnership between governments and the private sector.
Chief David McDougall, of the St. Theresa Point First Nation, says what they got was a shipment of water containers and slop pails.
He says each of the four community also got a sewage truck, but they don’t have the resources or fuel to run it.
McDougall says Ottawa is expecting 15 people in one house to share a slop pail rather than ensure the communities have running water.
He says that is degrading and unacceptable.
— With files from The Canadian Press