Mamakwa said he has repeatedly asked the government of Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford to offer funding to First Nations in areas such as water infrastructure, but the Ontario government insists the federal government is responsible. They play the jurisdictional ping pong on the lives of these children, and the elders, the community, Mamakwa said. To me, that s just a, No, we re not here to help, when they continue to say that.
Fourteen communities in NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa s riding are on long-term drinking water advisories.(Indigenous Services Canada/CBC)
Mamakwa s riding is home to 14 of the 41 communities under long-term drinking water advisories in First Nations most of which are in Ontario.