Attawapiskat Still Waiting, Angus Gets Standing Ovation

John Duncan, slightly more alert today

 Charlie Angus demanded to know why the money for the modular homes is not forthcoming so that people can be spared the hardship of makeshift and untenable living conditions.  The bitterness of this government to hold out tough until demands for book keeping are met just shows that the issue is really a power struggle and precedent setting.  They need to show "accountability to the taxpayers" yet are willing to fritter away huge sums with impunity in other matters.


Angus said officials from diamond company De Beers,  the diamond mine closeby will prepare the land and the 22 homes are ready to be installed with minimum delay at present but for the holdout stalemate.

Children are also without schooling for the past two months.  Everyone knows how hard it is to keep the interest and momentum up with education once it has been stalled.

The reasons for lack of funding and placing blame is well argued in The National Post so why repeat it when the writer Chelsea Vowel made clear where the inefficiencies lie, namely the bureaucracy of delivery of services, lack of real co-ordination and no accountability from start to finish. 


The issue is more than just mistreatment towards the band in one circumstance, but a long going racist and discriminatory series of legislations made all the more despicable because a watching, silent public plays a role in the crime.  Yes, Canadians.  All you who did not vote in the last election are going to have to answer for the government's manipulations of the Aboriginal people's displacement on their own lands.

The mining companies are making sure that they profit and plunder while leaving the land destroyed for habitation.  Plans to divert water from the rivers where settlements predominate are afoot as in this explanation.  The United States needs water for the midwest.  Fracking is spoiling most of its fresh water and Canada has the most fresh water in the world.  So, the Aboriginal Peoples will have to be plundered yet again. 

So, the housing is just a start of how the government is framing the narrative.  How it plays out in the public depends on making sure all Canadians do not allow misinformation to take over the truth.