News and views from SA Canada Aboriginal needs ignored by Ottawa, G-20
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(Above) Socialist Action contingent in G-20 protest march remains the norm. have jobs, according to Chief Adam Fiddler.
Nation communities. own backyard. da where the water is too polluted to drink. According to the Assembly of First Nations, 5486 of 88,485 on-reserve houses do not have sewage services. Around Sandy Lake, many houses have plastic sheets or cardboard serving as windows. Some homes have no outer walls at all, just insulation.
While the federal government spent $46 million in the Huntsville area to spruce up an already rich part of southern Ontario for a G8 Summit lasting just a few hours, in addition to the $1.2 Billionplus for ‘security’ for the two-day G20 in Toronto, there’s precious little for aboriginal communities, or for urban aboriginals. Their plight was not even on the agenda when the henchmen of global capital gathered to plan their future plunder of world resources. n of over 30,000 people in Toronto, June 26.