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UN to get up-close look at struggling reserves
Rice Krispies. (CNS JEAN LEVAC / THE OTTAWA CITI)
A United Nations envoy will visit two northern reserves next month on a fact-finding mission about food and flooding.
Olivier De Schutter, the UN's special rapporteur on the right to food, will visit God's River First Nation on the east side of the province as well as the Garden Hill reserve nearby. De Schutter, a Harvard-educated human rights lawyer who investigates and makes recommendations on food issues, is slated to be in Manitoba May 10 to May 12 as part of a cross-Canada trip.
"What the rapporteur is going to see is a transition phase where we're relying less on a traditional diet and more on processed, less healthy food," said Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Derek Nepinak. "Where I come from at Pine Creek First Nation, there is no fish left in the lake and there is no moose to hunt on the mountain. We have to make our purchases at the grocery store just like everyone else."
Northern Grand Chief David Harper said he hopes the envoy will get a feel for the high cost of groceries at Northern Stores. De Schutter will also tour a failed fish-processing plant in Garden Hill that could provide food and economic development for the community if it got up and running again, said Harper.
On the way back to Winnipeg, De Schutter will fly over the Lake St. Martin area, where prolonged flooding has forced the evacuation of hundreds of reserve residents.
De Schutter will also visit the Sagkeeng First Nation closer to Winnipeg for a forum and meet with provincial officials.
Federal and provincial aboriginal groups have appealed several times to the United Nations for help with inadequate funding for child welfare and education on reserves, as well as the indoor plumbing crisis in northern Manitoba.
maryagnes.welch@freepress.mb.ca
Grocery cost comparison
Rice Krispies cereal (small box)
Northern Stores, God's Lake region -- $6.09
Winnipeg (McPhillips Street Safeway) -- $4.99
Milk (four-litre jug)
God's Lake -- $7.95
Winnipeg -- $4.69
Apples (three-pound bag)
God's Lake -- $7.85
Winnipeg -- $4.99
Brown bread
God's Lake -- $4.79
Winnipeg -- $1.99
Head of lettuce
God's Lake -- $1.79 (on sale)
Winnipeg -- $1.49
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition April 26, 2012 A8
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