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GOLDSTEIN: Tainted water poisons reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians

GOLDSTEIN: Tainted water poisons reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians

In light of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada Day message urging us to reflect on our relationship with Canada’s Indigenous people, I’ve been reflecting on why his government can’t get clean water to every Indigenous reserve in Canada, despite spending $24.5 billion on Indigenous issues this year. The lack of clean water on reserves means the people living on them have far higher rates of infections and disease than other Canadians.