Kiiwetinoong MPP and NDP Deputy Leader describes province's Bill 7 as a continuation of colonization.
NDP deputy leader Sol Mamakwa says provincial legislation that would have seniors moved from hospitals and placed in long-term care facilities up to hundreds of kilometres from their homes is a form of continued colonization, and will potentially re-traumatize residential school survivors.
Mamakwa began his question to Premier Doug Ford by telling him about the Sept. 30 council meeting in Sioux Lookout, where the council unanimously passed a resolution to support the suspension of the legislation within Sioux Lookout's municipal boundaries. Long-Term Care Minsister Paul Calandra responded to Mamakwa’s question by saying that “Bill 7 helps ensure better care for people closer to home.”
Mamakwa then referenced words he has heard from many Indigenous community in the north, that forcing Elders away from their home communities is traumatizing to residential school survivors.
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