Northern Ontario Case Study

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Development of Northern Ontario
By:Parth

There are many problems that the federal government and the provincial government have to deal with. One of the most important problems is taking care of the aboriginals. There are many problems on the reserves.

There is no Indore water on the reserves. Some do have Indoor water but almost all of the water is dirty. According to CBC, ¼ of the aboriginals depend on unfiltered water systems. On some reserves, there is filtered water and it is Indore but, it will only come for 4-6 hours.

There are about 7-8 families living in one house. They only have 4-6 hours to do all the things in which water is required. That is not enough. Very often fights break out for the use of water. It’s not just the …show more content…

Even though the aboriginals are in houses, the houses are made out of metal which don’t help keeping warm and there is no reliable source of energy to heat the reserves up. When the food, drinkable water and reliable way of warming your house are scarce in winter, elderly people and young kids will die or get very ill.

The aboriginals depend on the provincial and Federal government for survival. The government can give aboriginals the skills to survive alone and get on their feet, or they can just keep feeding them forever. And the government has chosen to keep feeding the aboriginals forever.

We can clearly see the government is ignoring the aboriginals. The people who thought the aboriginals are savages, burnt down the schools they could go to, after knowing how quick they learn and how intelligent they …show more content…

And because of little or no education, they are getting very bad jobs or no jobs. The government doesn’t want to help at all, they are not fixing schools. They are saying we don’t have enough money to fix these schools. Stephen Harper is not going to spend $11 billion on aboriginals’ education, housing or food anymore.

If the aboriginals are studying or going to work, they don’t have proper sidewalks or roads like us, they have ice roads in the winter and muddy and dirty roads in the summer.

The schools are not a 10 minute walk from the reserves either. It may take a few hours to get there. It usually takes 4-5 hours. In Mississauga, you get a bus if it takes 40-45 minutes to get to school. On the reserves you don’t get anything even if it takes 4-5 hours to get there. That’s hard, especially in the winter. There are also many deadly diseases on the reserves and having bad food and water makes it harder to cure. Many kids can’t even make it to teen age. The lucky First Nations can live up to 28 years and the lucky Inuit can live up to 23 years.

For us the unlucky people only live up to 30 years. Some aboriginal children are getting raped. Many aboriginal women are getting kidnapped, killed and raped because there are many people that think aboriginals are

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