FULL STORY: As Long as The Waters Flow

[@padmasalam5267]

No clean drinking water, and roads? Is this Canada, or a third world country! Haven't these people suffered long enough. When is the suffering going to end! Shame on Canada and the Usa!!!!!!!!

[@Dunning.Kruger]

+padma salam You should see the poverty in the US

[@conorcorrigan765]

What's the original Cree word for "water treatment plant"? Do you know? Well, I'll spoil it for you- there isn't one, since the whole concept of purified drinking water was invented by the nasty European colonialists you're so mad at...

[@dez1771]

the underdeveloped roads ended with my aunt getting into a car crash, i loved her so much and she didnt even make it. my mom was just as devastated maybe even more.

[@markassko6426]

@@dez1771 so you live in one of those underdeveloped rezervations?

[@augustt8282]

​@@conorcorrigan765 Those "European colonialists " are the ones who poisoned their water, ruined their land and forced them into the so called "civilization" by committing cultural genocide through education and making them forget everything they knew about survival while making a fortune and benefiting from the natural resources, the least they can do is providing clean water and a road. Remember those natives were able to survive on their own for generations before Europeans came.

[@yusufal-kafir1539]

Canada would love to help them, but, we gotta save all of those refugees from Syria and elsewhere first, right?! All jokes aside, the resources that will be spent on an influx of refugees in the coming months should be going towards improving the quality of life in First Nations communities. Simply stated, you don't take in guests when you can't feed your own.

[@Petrajac88]

+Yusuf al-Kafir true true be my friend....

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Yusuf al-Kafir - I kind of agree, but lack of money isn't the real issue. It's their desire to push natives out of existence. Slow genocide. We're doing the same to natives here. See, Syria and the middle east represent geo-political interests. Natives? They've already taken just about everything from them. Australia treats indigenous peoples the same way.

[@kosmos1957]

We had the same problem here in the USA, that's why we elected Trump in 2016 and will do it again in 2020. You take care of your own FIRST!

[@TheShade247]

Aren’t you someone with arab name?

[@toheidy]

@@kosmos1957 You mean take care of your own "White's only". Its not shocking that this is the view many Americans have, it has simply become expected to believe that many Americans are ignorant, mentally challenged even.

[@breannemeekis3214]

this is like a teacher saying " I won't teach you because you don't have a book, but I won't give you a book,"

[@pinkajou656]

Breanne Meekis That is so smart, exactly!

[@claudiasangwais1129]

Yes disheartening when you know/learn your g'parents needed a letter to seek employment off the reserve to provide for the family's necessities ... would a book teach me our values the way my kokum did? the answer Never ... You hear//see it firsthand the tears we First Nation's people still have for our younger generations to come ... the positive side the values we carry today were taught verbally by our g'parents Humility ... Resilience is the true meaning of our survival

[@suni.L]

That's a pretty deep comment. 👍

[@chirukafailed6816]

I also live in shoal lake, glad freedom road is finally done! But all we need is clean water :( Shoal lake 40 is extremely nice! Never got bullied and always had bffs to grow up with!

[@markassko6426]

I thought natives didnt have electricity there. So youre happy living there?

[@PiujuqInuitArt]

Winnipeg should be forced to buy the water, at current market prices, with appropriate interest, going back one hundred years and going forward into the future...

[@BabyHell_Cheese]

Stewart Redsky is sadly no longer with us. Such a compassionate man, who survived the unimaginable trauma of residential schools, who stood up for his community and he was taken far too soon.

[@gradualuprisintheory]

People joke that Canadians are the nicest people. That may be but what does Canada say about this situation? Very sad. Disgraceful. Typical.

[@Kaynos]

This should be brought directly to the new PM Trudeau, i'm sure i'll listen. They have 1 billion to give to Bombardier they shoudl take care of peoples first.

[@cornellwaters9089]

🌏 Thank You!

[@wheeler2581]

brother's and sister's if their was oil you bet there will be road's bridges and rail,we need to get educated in the way they are fight back with the same paper their taking from the land,fight with our minds,we can!

[@wahidullahbhat]

4:24 " The Canadian Government expropriated nearly 3,400 acres of reserve land to the city of Winnipeg to build its Aqueduct without the consent of the people who live there", are you serious? Wasn't this entire continent stolen the same way just like many other continents?

[@EclipsedMoon77]

that makes it ok right ?

[@rubylace9963]

It's sad seeing people buying plastic bottles of water because they don't like the taste of tap water. What Shoal Lake would do for that water!

[@ethanbarc]

This will no longer be a crisis in Canadas First Nation reveres

[@John-oo6ng]

“As Long as the Water Flows” - Video Assignment 1) What happened historically for this to happen? 2) How is this a Human Rights case? 3) Why does the community say it is important for them to have an all access road (Freedom Road)? 4) What is the current situation with Shoal Lake and their Freedom Road? 5) What happened with the 2% cap on First Nations and provincial government spending that was to be in place from 1998- 2004 during the country’s recessive times? What are your thoughts on this? 6) The video states that according to the United Nations Human Development Index Canada rates between 6th and 8th place as a country, but that First Nations in Canada rank as low as 63rd to 78th on the same UN HDI. What are your thoughts on that discrepancy of ranking? What do you think needs to be done? How will this knowledge impact you in your future?

[@DetroitLives313]

Is there anything being done to improve these conditions? Come on Canada!

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

DetroitLives313 - Hi. Former Detroiter here. Went north.

[@DetroitLives313]

Hello there! What's up? Always love hearing from Former Detroiters. I am in New York City now and have thought about moving North to Canada for a good while now. They can what they want, but I have always loved Canada and times I have visited there.

[@DetroitLives313]

Are you in Western or Eastern Canada?

[@williamjoelserson4898]

FYI the 2% infrastructure cap was removed in December 2015, just after this news story was released.

[@anastasiagirl1342]

Shame

[@savecoupons]

I'm; curious what happen if trudeau kept is promess, this should be not waiting, there is other place in Canada water no good to drink, in Montreal some place my mom use to boil water,

[@janicebetos7736]

If the government could bail LNG pipeline why can't they give money to build road for these people.. they need access road and infustructure.

[@pspboy7]

Water trumps every other resource on the planet... and some people have access to no water at all. Crying shame.

[@checkmark5267]

I live at shoal lake it’s fine over there!

[@marciatex]

You guys got mold problems..

[@tapii5485]

Who’s watching this for homework

[@Orophile_303]

Watch it cause you give a damn.

[@pinkajou656]

I’m watching this for homework but that doesn’t mean I don’t care!

[@fredajordan5704]

Narive races/native people in each country of the world shoulda fought the brutal and shamful intruders from the first beginning on and klll them all....Native people should always be treated with respect, especially in countries, that they have lived for centuries, and kept the land in order and the people then were happy and content.What is to say about intruders that treat NAtives like dirt, don`t allow them their own language, religion, etc. ? Nothing good!

[@kosmos1957]

Every time I see a comment on the internet, made by some Canadian .......... I'm going to remember the videos from 16X9. Hypocrites eh?

[@vevedehavilland4743]

Same old story take from the native people they don't matter makes me sick

[@alucardhellsing1037]

So let me guess Canada is a first world country.🤔🤔🤔🤔 This was released in 2015 what has transpired over the last 3 1/2 years.

[@fethroloom3566]

All I know is shoal lake still doesn’t have clean water, just like many other First Nation communities... no difference made for the communities

[@PUBGM_Xequay]

My reserve still doesn't have clean tap water, we usually get water from a lake 30 minutes from here

[@drewsales92]

Drew=smart

[@checkmark5267]

Erwin is my neighbour he is very nice Ojibway is my school

[@pcs4580]

#civilwar

[@drewsales92]

shoal lake 40

[@drewsales92]

Wow drew you’re so smart

[@pinkajou656]

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[@nirjecimzataby1997]

Shoal Lake is not "cut off from the world" anymore than any other remote community. for instance, many remote communities built their own roads, bridges and ferry services out of their own fund raising efforts and their own blood and sweat. They weren't offered millions of dollars cash to do it, never mind not going forward when the full amounts of their demands were not filled. nor were any people on reserves "forced into isolation" any more than any other people or persons. If these people had a problem with the city taking water from a lake they considered their's and they didn't fight for it, then they lost it. Trying to demand retribution one hundred years after the fact is not permissible. The kind of notice they got in the newspaper about the development of the aqueduct on the lake was the same as any other legal notice which needed public posting. "One hundred years later some of the consequences" are not those relatively new buildings languishing in disrepair for lack of paint. There's lots on that garbage pile that can be reused, recycled and repaired. Landfill sites can be established and maintained. Underground sewage leaks are also a result of not keeping a septic field in good repair. So you're right, the reserve has brought about its own woes. They might all want to take to heart Jordan B. Peterson's advise in his book "12 Rules For Life". They also need to apply the Canada Food Guide to get those children back to a healthy weight. Why would the floor rot in the water storage building? The roof and sides of the building looked to be in good repair therefore, the rotted floor should be easy enough to replace. Did he say he didn't want to live on government handouts? That would be a historic national first. If they haven't become self-sufficient and self-sustaining in over one hundred years, I don't think a road will bring that about. "If it wasn't for Treaty Three there would be no Canada". What? The treaty wasn't broken one hundred years ago by the Canadian Government. The land was legally expropriated. "For one hundred years the reserve has had to pay for fresh water"? What? The boil adversary had been for the last twenty. That guy really needs therapy. That is terrible role modeling. That breakdown was a form a child abuse in using the children like that for his props. That ferry looks like an "easy, safe way to get on and off reserve." All Canadians, who choose to live off the grid, are without running water or sewage treatment unless they devise their own. $165,000,000 amongst how many people? Is he including in this figure the free higher education, jobs, training, shares in industry profits and all the tax free perks? A 2% escalator for inflation and population growth is not a hardship considering the aforementioned ongoing perks.

[@alucardhellsing1037]

You wrote so much I got bored and replied with the following message. Who gives a shit

[@wldgylslndwtch]

I didn’t even bother reading; but remember, clean water for them doesn’t mean less clean water for you. Just repeat that to yourself.

[@nirjecimzataby1997]

@@wldgylslndwtch Did I say anything about "less clean water for (me)" or even imply it? If so, please it out to me.

[@DynamicDreamer2785]

Nirjecim Zataby you’re forgetting about treaties.. and rights of indigenous peoples in Canada.

[@nirjecimzataby1997]

@@DynamicDreamer2785 So you assume. The treaties have been signed, sealed and delivered.

[@the_gaming_pizza]

Bro just move

[@Dunning.Kruger]

More make-up

[@AudioPervert1]

Voyagers?!? What a pack of lies... A bunch of european hordes and settler colonizers came first...