>too poor to get the luxury "Compassionate Fentanyl Overdose" package
The problem with natives advocacy groups is that I never know if what they are saying is true or not or even something I should be concerned about.
A lot of it is that there's a ridiculous amount of red tape involved in getting the money to the FNs for them to get clean water, to use one example. The feds say "okay we'll build a treatment plant and set up the lines, tell us what you need", but there's tons of snags. The FNs are required to put the project up for tender and take the lowest bid. Funding for employees to actually run the plant is the same way. The project goes through several layers of government and can take years to finally get approved, then if the contractors cheap out or take forever to complete construction, the FNs have to take them to court at their own expense, taking more time. The project sometimes requires environmental assessments, and approvals from neighboring municipalities if it ties into them. Then the government gets voted out and a new Department of Indian Affairs minister gets in and makes more changes.
This is sort of true, but free post-secondary education and other major gibs for them usually require them to be living on reserve to obtain, and they have to reapply yearly for the grant funding with a bunch of conditions attached, so they have to subject themselves to that hell if they want to take advantage of them. There used to be a 2% per year max funding increase cap for FN programs/communities, but the Trudeau government did keep their promise to nuke that. The other barriers still remain though.
Tell me about it. Many government apologists love to remind Albertans that the federal government bought the Trans-Mountain pipeline when we complain about the country's lack of pipeline capacity. One, the project is to twin an existing pipeline. Two, Kinder Morgan sold the pipeline to the federal government (at a premium might I add) because of government dithering and overregulation. And three, that wasn't even the point. Canada contains vast reserves of petroleum and natural gas yet we struggle to get it to market because of this country's insane bureaucracy and the current government's ideological opposition to the industry's very existence. Germany built a new LNG terminal in ten months. A project like that would take ten years at the very least in Mapleland because of government aversion to building anything.
Canada can't force Reserves to spend the money they get wisely. If a rez is a shit hole then it's mostly because the chief isn't spending the FREE FUCKING MONEY right, and there's nothing the average Canadian to do to fix that.
Keep in mind that there is an election in Alberta 4 months from now and Canada's elections aren't know for being secure especially with the faith of the United Conservative Party being dropped due to Jason Kenneys negligence. Meaning there is a good chance Rachael Nottley can be re-elected and turn Alberta into Ontario.
yeah we got our own "California locust" phenomenon here, except the people that go to Alberta and vote the exact same way they voted where they came from tend to be from Atlantic Canada, BC, Ontario, and Quebec. Liberal at best, NDP at worst.
I wish BC was a better province. Rural BC is great. But christ alive are the cities bad. Guess that makes us Canada's Oregon.
It is worth noting that there is also a substantial rural/urban divide in Alberta as well. Edmonton tends to lean left. Calgary can go either way, really. Even Lethbridge West votes NDP, but I suspect that it is partially because that is where the University of Lethbridge is located.
I don't really think most of Atlantic Canada is in any way committed to any particular party. Atlantic Canadians generally vote for the candidate because out here most of the people who run spent several decades as small business owners or youth sports coaches in their ridings and everyone in the area has a personal relationship with them, so things swing back and fourth all the time. 3/4 of the atlantic premiers are PC. If you look at the 2021 election, the Conservatives picked up a bunch of seats in Atlantic Canada. A bunch is relative here as there are only 32 seats in all of Atlantic Canada.
Yeah college towns get pozzed as hell, not only due to the brainwashing of local kids, but the importation of kids from Liberal/NDP areas coming in already brainwashed and just getting worse.
