{"id":158,"date":"2017-02-13T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-04-29T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T14:56:45","slug":"ontario-ndp-statement-on-grassy-narrows-mercury-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/13\/ontario-ndp-statement-on-grassy-narrows-mercury-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario NDP statement on Grassy Narrows mercury clean-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">NDP Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Critic Michael Mantha issued the following statement in response to Premier Wynne\u2019s recent commitment to clean up mercury contamination in the English-Wabigoon River.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe Ontario New Democratic caucus welcomes the explicit commitment by the government to the full clean-up of the Wabigoon-English River of the 50-year-old mercury contamination there, as well as the commitment to \u2018identify all potentially contaminated sites.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The people of the Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations have been devastated by the contamination, and have waited far too long for this government to act.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The NDP caucus will be watching closely to ensure there&#8217;s follow through on these commitments, and my colleagues and I will continue to press the Liberal government on this promise until \u2018the fish are safe to eat\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDP Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Critic Michael Mantha issued the following statement in response to Premier Wynne\u2019s recent commitment to clean up mercury contamination in the English-Wabigoon River. \u00a0 \u201cThe Ontario New Democratic caucus welcomes the explicit commitment by the government to the full clean-up of the Wabigoon-English River of the 50-year-old mercury contamination there, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,76,36,38],"tags":[56,49,51],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous","category-northern-ontario","category-news","category-provincial","tag-english-wabigoon-river","tag-grassy-narrows","tag-mercury"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 17:57:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}