Native Reserves turn their backs too.

RE: “North Bay turns it back on people in need.” Nugget (April 30, 200

 

The people of Kashechewan have been evacuated due to flooding again.

 

Maurice Switzer has accused North Bay of turning its back on those people in need. By implication, he is saying that our city does not have a compassionate or generous spirit.

 

If North Bay lacks neighborly compassion due to the fact that we have not accepted any evacuees, by extension, every community that has not taken in evacuees is also lacking in compassion.

 

According to Switzer, the following communities have taken in evacuees:  Timmins, Sudbury, Cochrane, Stratford, Perth and St. Mary’s.

 

That list is interesting for the total lack of native communities on it.

 

I am shocked and appalled that not one native reserve in Ontario could find it in their hearts to take in one of the 1800 Kashechewan evacuees.

 

Maurice Switzer is the Director of Communications for the Union of Ontario Indians. He is also a hypocrite who owes North Bay an apology.