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Sun- Many reserves still lack clean water
Since the Trudeau government came to power in 2015, spending to improve the lives of Indigenous people has gone up 140% in seven years, from $11.4 billion annually in 2015 to a projected $27.4 billion this year.
And yet the lives of our Indigenous citizens have not demonstrably improved.
To cite just one example, despite all that spending, the Trudeau government still hasn’t fulfilled its 2015 election promise to end all drinking water advisories on reserves by March 31, 2021.
Don’t you love socialism?
More spending = more bureaucrats, more lawyers, more dachas, and lots more money for chiefs and favoured supporters.
I forgot more money for university professors, whose ‘research’ says governments need to throw more money at the problem.
” And yet the lives of our Indigenous citizens have not demonstrably improved ”
Yeah, but at least all the Chiefs have new F150 Raptors.
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TIME TRAVEL WITH ME
“At least 80 aboriginal chiefs and band councillors made more money last year
than Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and at least 200 were paid more than their
provincial premiers, according to newly released federal figures.”
MONEY FOR NOTHING
The rate of deaths from injuries is 3 to 4 times higher for Aboriginal children
than for other children in Canada.” — Source: Government of Canada (2002)
Healthy Canadians – A Federal Report on Comparable Health Indicators Ottawa.
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What kind of citizenry segregates a portion of its native-born population because of ethnicity? If there was ever any justification for treating indigenous peoples as wards of government (what other overrun people in the history of mankind suffered such an indignity?) it must surely be well past its “best before” date by now.
Of course, the “Indian Industry” is just the liberal plantation on which the people suck up or suffer while bureaucracies enrich themselves.
If they actually did anything to fix the problem then they wouldn’t be able to promise the fools that they will fix it after the next election.
But have we as a nation raised ‘awareness’ in other countries ? Have minority groups outside Canada benefited … at the expense of our minority groups for whom tears are not enough unless theatre was your major.
White people moved to Canada with virtually nothing and figured out how to get drinkable water.
I have drinking water straight from my taps.
Come to think of it…Indians survived in Canada for thousands of years and successfully drank water.
What’s the real problem here?
What’s the real problem here?
Their knowledge keepers are all on strike?
Shhhhhh. Pretty soon fresh drinking water will be a sign of white supremacy, like urgency, punctuality and math.
Where are the Koebel brothers?
Jeff
Indian reserves are kanada’s Ukraine, kickback ally!
How do water systems become a federal responsibility? It never occurred to me to cal the government. I called a well driller 33 years ago and have good water ever since. My father called a well driller 60 years ago and the well still works like a damn. Every hamlet and village around me has a water system that works. Reserves use bad water as a means of fundraising. If the problem is solved they lose the fundraising guilt factor. Every reserve gets tens of millions in operating grants yearly but can’t run a water system. It’s all deliberate. The problem will never be solved.
Scar
Bang on…a carousel that never stops….
Ever…cause, well, it’s an INDUSTRY.
scar, Bang on #2 scar.
Are the natives completely incapable of digging clean water wells on their own?
Nope, but well water usually requires a modicum of treatment-maybe filtration, chlorination or whatever- they are totally incapable of regular maintenance eg new pickup trucks every year.
Before Trudeau’s big spending on our native Indians the chief had 1 Escalade on their paved driveway, now they have 2.
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In all fairness, Prime Minister Blackface did warn us he
was gonna pump up the wampum…
“It’s time for a new fiscal relationship with First Nations
that gives your communities sufficient, predictable and
sustained funding. This is a promise we made, and a
promise we will keep.”
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pump up the wampum
Wasn’t there a song by that title at one time?
Can’t they all lose?
Wanna bet the majority of the money went to administrative causes and not spent to benefit the reserves or bands? When there is zero accountability for how the native leaders spend tax payers’ money you get lavish spending on pet people and causes. I remember one band that contaminated their water supply said it wasn’t their fault they didn’t know how to test the water-holy hockey puck all you need is a bottle via a testing kit and a package of water testing strips. If that’s to much to ask of them, how is our fault they can’t maintain clean water? Oh never build your sewage system upstream of your water supply, just saying it’s not rocket science.
Fiscal accountability, like punctuality, is white supremacy.
It’s a decades old problem and extremely complicated. The solution for most gov’ts is to firehose cash at band leaders hoping the problem goes away but it never does.
Many bands have water treatment facilities on site but no one to run them only because operators need technical/mechanical expertise and strong backgrounds in chemistry to make it all happen. I chuckled at one band leader’s boast…”we’ll figure it out on our own, like we always do“. Uh huh. Not so easy is it, Skippy. They either untrainable or can’t be bothered preferring the gov’t do it for them so they’ll have someone to
sueblame if things go South, which it can.That said: Aboriginal leaders would rather stick an arrow through their ear than back a Conservative candidate so I’m sure this issue will be brought up again come next election along with the syrupy promises from Liberals they always fall for.
I just came out of the bush adjacent to a rez. They have a modern water treatment plant. It was being operated by a white guy.
Local politics being what they are the water guy was hassled and badgered until one day he walked into the office and quit. Immediately the band issued a boil water advisory as they had not one person trained as backup.
So there they sit. Bitching about having to boil water as a result of their own doing.
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Perhaps, handing over a shit ton of cash to bands of technically-bereft stone-age hunter-gatherers
isn’t the optimal socio-political strategy.
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If you want to see the end game, then read a history of why the North American Bison was hunted to extinction.
(And, yes, I know its the Guardian, but stopped clock and all that):
But less than 400 years after Columbus’ direful voyage, white settlers pushed their way west into Native American territory in so-called manifest destiny. And the US government made the fateful decision to cripple the Native Americans through whatever means necessary. One of these was the bison: the government viewed slaughtering the great herds en-masse as a way to starve and devastate Native American tribes.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/12/how-native-american-tribes-are-bringing-back-the-bison-from-brink-of-extinction
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Yes… if only the aboriginals could still stampede thousands
of bison off the nearest cliff… everything would be fine.
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I think the point Max was making is that to control a people, it’s first necessary to destroy their economy. Whether that’s tribes or the middle class, once they’re rendered poor and starving, they’ll do as they’re told.
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Tell that to Genghis Khan… or the Aztecs.
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Checked the native population stats… there are about a million… so they are “investing” about $27,000.00 per native, or slightly North of $100k per family if four. Someone should be prosecuted for this travesty
so $1000 for a kitchen sink system, $1000 for a system for the bathroom sink, $80,000 for consultants, and $18 k to the chief…
sounds about right
Newfoundlanders knew how to negotiate with the Beothuks…
Beothuks? It was the Frenchmen who brought in Micmacs to kill the Beothuk.
Ah yes. The Aboriginal Industry.
The solution to every problem is double the amount of money to chiefs, councils, consultants, and bureaucrats.
Old Government Saying
“When you see light at the end of the Tunnel….order more tunnel”
The haven’t fixed the water problem yet because they’re too busy planting a billion trees. Oh, wait a minute…
a billion trees over 10 years…
or less than BC plants every year…
to be fair, there are special problems in drilling wells on reserves , first it’s a struggle getting unit to the location, and then you need to wait the arrival of the parts you had to order, to replace the parts that were stripped off the day after you got the unit there. Then you bring in a guard dog, next day , dog is gone, and the BBQ’s are still warm.
There are lots of reserves that are awash in money, with great roads, clean water, lotsa businesses, and so on. Just not in AB or SK I guess.
I suspect that most of the money is going into the pockets of former Liberals who are now “native lobbyists” who beg for more money; and the chiefs and their families.
“All of your money are belong to us”
The Indians are mostly blameless in this fraud.
The Canadian Apartheid System is designed to destroy native families and enrich Liberal thieves.
The government announces millions of dollars of “help”,the department and the CON sultants make 99.9% vanish and the Band gets the remaining 0.1% which is stolen by a Government “Approved” chief.
As long as enough Natives can be held prisoner and hostage on the reserve,then the thieves have cover for what they do.
Ever wondered why some native women would sooner live on Skid Row than stay on the Reservation?
Guess where they have more Human Rights..
John
Addscam petered out I guess!!
How much is that per Indian?