“Trudeau’s apology rings hollow while our people are suffering without the care and support that we need,” Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle said in a written response to the National Post. Goldberg was representing an advocacy group called Free Grassy Narrows, which aims to help the community secure a long-term care facility for patients of mercury poisonings. In November, then-Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced that Ottawa would provide $170,000 to fund a feasibility study for a long-term treatment centre in Grassy Narrows. It also promised a treatment centre in the Wabaseemoong, or Whitedog, First Nation that has had similar mercury poisonings. The facility in Grassy Narrows, designed to hold around 20 beds, was meant to begin construction in the fall of 2018, but has not yet broken ground.

Source: National Post March 29, 2019 16:07 UTC