OTTAWA — The federal government has committed to funding a treatment centre for an Ontario community plagued by mercury contamination, says Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister. Fobister said Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott delivered the news during a meeting in Toronto Wednesday that included Ontario’s Indigenous Relations Minister David Zimmer. mercury home and treatment centre for our people.”The treatment centre is “dream come true” and once it is built, those affected by the serious impacts of mercury contamination will not have to travel to centres like Winnipeg or Kenora, Ont. Earlier this month, the Ontario government reaffirmed in its fiscal plan to spend $85 million on cleaning up the site of a paper mill upstream from Grassy Narrows where mercury was first dumped. “Hopefully it will be built ASAP and we are so happy about it.”— Follow @kkirkup and @allisonjones–cp on Twitter

Source: National Post November 29, 2017 09:00 UTC