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25th May 2008
EDITOR
In April of this year, we published the boil water advisories that are currently in effect in the province of BC. In those advisories, it did NOT include our First Nations Communities. These are now included below for you information and knowledge.
I don't know what it is going to take to wake up our Canadian population to the devastation that they are allowing to occur all around them! Our governments are all corporate controlled as is our media! It is the Editor's opinion we have become terrorists ourselves, committing genocide on our population and on our environment!
If anyone has any thoughts on how we wake up our population and get them to ACT, please leave a message!

To view a copy of Boiling Point: Six community profiles of the water crisis facing First Nations within Canada, please follow this link:

http://www.polarisinstitute.org/files/Boiling%20Point.pdf

“The crisis in our communities is untenable,” the National Chief Phil Fontaine noted. “In a country like Canada, that has the most fresh water in the world, to have First Nation communities struggle on a daily basis to provide their citizens with healthy water for drinking and clean water for bathing is completely unacceptable.”

"The shocking and deplorable conditions of First Nation communities being denied access to safe, clean drinking water is similar to what I have witnessed myself in Mexico, India, South Africa and other Third World countries," said Tony Clarke of the Polaris Institute and author of several books on water. "Water is a basic human right and Boiling Point should be a wake-up call for people across Canada to demand concerted action from our governments now."

Hassan Yussuff, Secretary Treasurer for the Canadian Labour Congress commented, “Canadians expect a swift response anytime they face a boil water advisory of the public water system, yet nearly 100 First Nation communities live with these advisories on a daily basis, and in some cases endure tainted, polluted and utterly undrinkable water for yearsm, this is nothing less than a fundamental violation of what should be a basic human right.”