Premier takes heat over water challenges – The Chronicle Journal
November 16, 2016 6
As a remote Northwestern Ontario indigenous community continued Tuesday to struggle with a failing waterworks system, the province’s premier was being raked over the coals for offering what some felt was an arid response.
In an exchange in the legislature with NDP MPP Sarah Campbell, Wynne was told that 80 Ontario First Nations in the province “mostly Northern, mostly remote, do not have access to clean water.”
“For some communities, it has been decades,” added Campbell (Kenora-Rainy River). “That number wouldn’t stand in any other community in this province.”
Weagamow First Nation, a fly-in reserve of about 700 Oji-Cree north of Sioux Lookout, has been without clean drinking water for more than a week.
