Cindy Blackstock is the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is also a professor at the school of social work at McGill University.last week confirmed what we have known for decades: First Nations children, particularly those who reside on reserve, live in the deepest levels of poverty of all children in Canada.
The problem was that when Shannen was in Grade 1, the only school in her community closed because of contamination from a gasoline spill. The Government of Canada, which is responsible for funding education on reserves, brought up portable trailers as a “temporary” facility while a new school was built. When Shannen was in Grade 8, those trailers were falling apart and there was no sign of a new school.
Chelsea Edwards, a founder and youth spokesperson for Shannen’s Dream and now the mother of a four-month-old son, was in the news again this week. A proud member of Attawapiskat First Nation, she spent her childhood advocating for Shannen’s Dream across Canada and at the United Nations. This week, she pleaded with Canadians and the Government of Canada to fix the contaminated water in her community after officials advised people not to shower, wash food or drink from their own taps.
How can First Nations families reasonably recover from the multi-generational impacts of residential schools when the federal government delivers apartheid-type public services and refuses to implement a comprehensive plan to address all inequalities in essential services for children and families? The answer is they can’t.
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GlobeDebate It is not only Ottawa. It is every corner of your country. Is this why you self-claim you are THE best in the world. Have you ever heard from any Scandinavian country abusing their native folks? They never brag they are the best, yet they truly are in everything.
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GlobeDebate Poverty porn. Now tell us about infant mortality and life expectancy in the past 112 years.
GlobeDebate I'm sorry ... but this is a disgrace to our nation!! to have our first nation people, subjected to such conditions for so many decades is truly unacceptable!! not only is this gov the blame but past elected members JustinTrudeau when will this end!