So let's talk about the water purification problem that ends up in the news constantly. The one who the media loves to bring up. The one with the two failed water purification plants. The one with the fattest Chief in the country who went on the world's most suspicious hunger-strike. The one with the suicide crisis. The one who was so corrupt they ended up with every band getting audited after they squandered tens of billions.
Let's talk Attawapiskat.
In the seventies they lobbied the government for running water and received it. Prior to that they were filling buckets in a nearby stream (the water up there is exceptionally clean.)
Of course, because it's the fucking government they decided to draw from the only watersource in the area that was unsuitable and it meant that the water plant would be exceptionally prone to wear, have to use a bunch more chemicals and as it gets more and more worn it starts to produce water that's not only undrinkable, but that is unfit for washing as well.
So the government, being the government, they decided to replace the water treatment plant and to draw from the same fucking water source.
Not helped by any of this is that they seem to have one of the most corrupt band councils in Canada. The amount of money they draw is insane and none of it makes it to the services or the people.
Most of the natives are just on well water, the same as everyone else who lives outside of the cities but they love to bitch about it with the hope that they'll sucker people and get more tax dollars from the government.
Attawapiskat is special though.
The worst thing about the story though, is how many people actually live in the reserve that gets such an insane amount of government money. It is a reserve of 1500 people. I shudder to think what Canada has spent on such a small amount of people who don't even pay a cent of taxes.
The shit that goes on in this country astounds me sometimes.
So let's talk about the water purification problem that ends up in the news constantly. The one who the media loves to bring up. The one with the two failed water purification plants. The one with the fattest Chief in the country who went on the world's most suspicious hunger-strike. The one with the suicide crisis. The one who was so corrupt they ended up with every band getting audited after they squandered tens of billions.
Let's talk Attawapiskat.
In the seventies they lobbied the government for running water and received it. Prior to that they were filling buckets in a nearby stream (the water up there is exceptionally clean.)
Of course, because it's the fucking government they decided to draw from the only watersource in the area that was unsuitable and it meant that the water plant would be exceptionally prone to wear, have to use a bunch more chemicals and as it gets more and more worn it starts to produce water that's not only undrinkable, but that is unfit for washing as well.
So the government, being the government, they decided to replace the water treatment plant and to draw from the same fucking water source.
Not helped by any of this is that they seem to have one of the most corrupt band councils in Canada. The amount of money they draw is insane and none of it makes it to the services or the people.
Most of the natives are just on well water, the same as everyone else who lives outside of the cities but they love to bitch about it with the hope that they'll sucker people and get more tax dollars from the government.
Attawapiskat is special though.
The worst thing about the story though, is how many people actually live in the reserve that gets such an insane amount of government money. It is a reserve of 1500 people. I shudder to think what Canada has spent on such a small amount of people who don't even pay a cent of taxes.
The shit that goes on in this country astounds me sometimes.