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Investigation
FN first Nations
First Nations seeking Clean
Water
First nations without cleandrinking water hope
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for
change with compensation settlement
Deadline for filing compensation claims approaching
law firm urging eligible first Nations to submit claims
fed govopened first Nations drinking water settlement 202 2
after a lengthy legal battle
Settlement overview
compensates for lack of clean water
to
June
20ᵗʰ 2021
from NOV 20 1995
Involves
8 billion covering 142,010 individuals
258 FN and 120 Communities
90
of eligible individuals submitted claims to
March 7,2024
Legal commitments
from
still need to file
by
LC
LC ensure clean drinking water and end advisories
Settlement includes funding for actual cost of providing clean water in
in communities
Community impact
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to lift its boil wateradvisory
long term maintenance of the facility will be supportedby federal funds
Neskantaga first Nation
longest boil advisory in a D
compensation will aid
29years on feb 1st
in designing new water treatment plant
Trust Issues
Deep community scars from prolonged unsafe water conditions
Challenges
ongoing effort to rebuild trust in gov and Hye quarity
Commitment from indigenous services Minister Patty Haidice to design
a new treatment plant for Nestantaga
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Claimsby fin against the gov of CAD for breaches of the crown's lawful
oblig tions
Arise fromfailures to meet obligations under treaties or other agreements or
mismanagement
of FN land
assets
AFN Resolution 09 2020
passed by FN in Assembley 020
Calls for a fully independent specific claims processdeveloped with the AFN and
chiefs committee on lands territories and resources
principles for the new process
must align with this principle
Independence
funding oversight must be independent of CAD
Recognition of laws
FN laws to influence adjudication dispute resolution and negotiation
No arbitrary limits on compensation nofinancialcaps 150million limit tribunal jurisdictio
ongoing advocacy fairness
Honour of crown
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Criticism
If
women
Recommendations
miffgg
Provisions
Allows married
Repeats the
hdigreccomenended removing
women to re
enter
no liability clauses for reparations
natal band lists
term mentally incompetent Indiani i
adds dependant
person
Food
Insecurity
57
in Nunavut 2015 16 52.3
21.6
in the Northwest territories
2015 16 20.3
16.9 Yukon 2015 16 nocollected data
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insecurity
remote isolation
far from stores
socio economic status
consequences
lack of education
hunger especially in children
increase in chronic diseases
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