Canada: Slop pails sent to reserves (that have no running water)

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Post discusses racism directed towards First Nations people.

Slop pails sent to reserves

Chief David McDougall, of the St. Theresa Point First Nation, says what they got was a shipment of water containers and slop pails.

He says each of the four community also got a sewage truck, but they don't have the resources or fuel to run it.

McDougall says Ottawa is expecting 15 people in one house to share a slop pail rather than ensure the communities have running water.

I'm trying to imagine a white Canadian community getting treated the same way in the case of a water-related crisis, and failing.

Maybe they should have offered to dress "ethnic" for the photo op.

Comments

O_O

[ysabetwordsmith]

Wow. I haven't heard of that happening in America, which is another place that seriously mistreats people living on reservations. Epic fail.

[silveradept]

What's the bet that later, this will be used to justify some other offense because "They're not living like civilized people, anyway, so we can continue to treat them poorly."