Poor Living Conditions In Canada

Throughout history, Canada has experienced many events that its citizens are incredibly prideful of like; the battle of Vimy, our independence and many others. In spite of this, we cannot deny that there are a lot of historical tragedies that Canadian patriots would rather not discuss like; the Indian act in 1867, or the racism and oppression towards minorities that occured. Now, Canada is known for it’s freedom and its opportunities. People from around the world would immigrate to Canada to make a new beginning for themselves, to get away from their nationwide issues in their own countries. Canada would welcome them with open arms and offer them residence, help them get a job, and give them some money to start their new lives. But what about

The first indicator of poor living conditions is the water problem; which is the lack of clean drinkable water. "It's very upsetting. We live in Canada but on reserve it feels like Third World conditions," said Nazko Chief Stuart Alec. "Drinking, bathing — it's pretty appalling these conditions exist in this country." (CBC news, 2015) On Native reserves they have to constantly boil their water to ensure that it's drinkable and clean enough to consume. Not to mention most of the First Nations living on reserve take baths in brown water. Clearly the water condition is only getting worse. The indigenous people can only consume the treated water. Once they run out of that they must go and get water and boil it and disinfect it before being able to consume it and share it with their community. And unfortunately the community doesn't have enough money to be able to fix the problem or hire someone to investigate the causes of the water problem. The government decided to give money to the First Nations living on reserves. But the money didn't fix the water problem. The government needs to send someone to investigate the water problem but they haven't yet. They just threw money at the problem to appear as if they care about the issue to the public and today's society. So naturally the lack of drinkable water keeps persisting, and getting worse with every minute that goes by. This also

"This is a country that stands up for human rights around the world and yet we are racially discriminating against little kids, she said." (The Star, 2017) The indigenous youth are being separated from their families and put into foster homes due to the poverty that surrounds these native reserves. The government is given money to help resolve the issue of poverty in these reserves but the money cannot be accessed for another few years. This demonstrates that the government’s priority is not with the aboriginal youth and is in fact elsewhere. The government keeps promising that they will help the indigenous youth by improving their state of poverty but this keeps being pushed off. It has gotten to the degree that the indigenous children are protesting on the parliament hill to call the prime minister to action. And yet still nothing is being done to improve the lives of the indigenous youth. So they continue to live in poverty and horrible housing and being taken from their families to live in foster homes because no one is taking any action to help improve