Juno News - October 24, 2020


Another broken promise by Justin Trudeau


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4 minutes

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The Prime Minister of Canada has walked back a commitment to end boil water advisories on First Nations reserves, a commitment that has been made repeatedly over the years. Is this a good or bad thing? What does it mean for Canada's First Nations community?

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00:00:00.000 well many people think that the prime minister is simply a national embarrassment and they've 0.92
00:00:12.220 got a lot of things to point to when it's not dress up and silly dancing on foreign affairs 0.93
00:00:17.080 trips it's being caught in blackface or being accused of allegedly groping a reporter and then
00:00:22.280 saying that you wouldn't have done so if you would have known she was a reporter
00:00:25.140 it's the we scandal it's the jody wilson raybold stuff it's the infrastructure project that seemed
00:00:30.660 to disappear it's the skyrocketing deficit it's just a number of things that are coming out of
00:00:36.240 the prime minister's office that are problematic and concerning to to all canadians not just people
00:00:40.600 who are uh who are you know not not uh supporters of the prime minister himself but honestly one of
00:00:45.700 the things that bothers me the most about this entire episode and this entire drama which is our
00:00:50.680 government is really this one here and this is the prime minister walking back the commitment to
00:00:55.780 end boil water advisories on first nations reserves they had they had made a commitment numerous times
00:01:00.320 i have a previous video about this but they have commitments numerous times and they made a very
00:01:04.460 big deal about ending boil water advisories on first nations first nations communities now you might want
00:01:10.280 to say okay well there's some challenges because of covid definitely a lot of things have been screwed
00:01:14.120 up and messed up because of covid but the reason i don't know if i buy that is because the uh the answer
00:01:19.860 that he was quoted as saying is that they'll get to it quote as soon as possible when you have a firm
00:01:24.860 commitment if i'm promising you that i'm going to do something for you and things get in the way
00:01:29.640 circumstances covid totally understandable but not even a ballpark it's just kind of as soon as possible
00:01:35.780 whenever we get to it like if they complain a lot maybe we'll talk about it that's kind of what i'm
00:01:41.480 getting from here and it's you know it's very disappointing i can only imagine what the people who are
00:01:45.880 affected by the boil water advisories feel if you want to talk about the money okay it's very expensive
00:01:51.640 but uh you know we we seem to have money to uh help countries fight against covid which look it's also
00:01:57.520 worthy cause but boil water advisories definitely a worthy cause for for canadians um again you want
00:02:03.520 to talk about money we have a skyrocketing deficit we have all these projects that are just you know
00:02:07.880 disappearing money seems to be going out the window uh i don't really buy the financial cost either
00:02:12.700 you might want to say all right well maybe it's uh corruption transparency some other issue
00:02:17.380 all right fine i'm willing to listen to to any problem any any barrier or challenge to fixing this
00:02:22.940 issue but it's something that has to be fixed either way we we can't just let people in a first
00:02:27.780 world country in a country like canada just not have water drink from the tap now i want to pull up
00:02:33.380 again just lastly this is the uh official government of canada website that shows the boil water
00:02:38.640 advisories you can see here it's the uh the canada website and here these are the communities
00:02:44.340 but again some of them have been on these advisories since the mid to late 90s so you've grown up
00:02:50.160 you you simply just never had water and it's not just a boil water advisory some of them are do not
00:02:55.020 use meaning the water is so contaminated you can't take a bath you can't do anything with it
00:02:58.680 so these are serious problems for canada's first nations community and something that we
00:03:04.660 need to address and that the liberals simply have failed to do so this is uh um the prime minister
00:03:10.300 in 2015 speaking to the assembly of first nations people making all these commitments this is the
00:03:14.600 text of the speech um you know it's something that they failed on again and again and again and we
00:03:19.700 must hold them to account we we cannot allow this thing to just drag on forever it is a shame
00:03:25.020 on this country and it is a dark chapter in our history that i i would like to see close and i think
00:03:30.540 that we all should advocate for fixing this problem and just ending it one way or another
00:03:35.160 making sure that these people have water to drink that they're treated properly with the respect and
00:03:39.900 dignity that we would all like to be treated with and i think that's just something really important
00:03:44.180 and even though everything is busy we definitely need to bring this up on the agenda we shouldn't
00:03:48.760 let the prime minister just kind of squeak this one by and say he'll get around to it as soon as
00:03:52.320 possible and and let it get lost in the shuffle of his other scandals so hopefully it will have
00:03:57.600 some effects but uh for true north i am sam ashkenazi thank you so so much for watching
00:04:01.600 this video and have yourselves a great day