During question period on Monday, NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa, said the Ford government is failing to take action for the people of Cat Lake First Nation, who are going into their second month under a state of emergency.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCat Lake First Nation has asked this government for housing and health emergency relief,\u201d said Mamakwa, the NDP\u2019s Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation critic.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey declared a State of Emergency on Jan.16 due to black mould in most of their homes.\u00a0The resulting illnesses are so serious that children are being medevaced out of the community.\u00a0Since then a Cat Lake First Nations woman,\u00a0Nashie Oombash,\u00a0has died.<\/p>\n
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\u201cChief Keewaykapow has requested the province provide 10 to 14 housing units so that residents can be removed from the contaminated houses<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere are only weeks left to get the promised housing supplies in before the winter road closes. Will\u00a0this government deliver the housing units Cat Lake desperately needs before it\u2019s too late?\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mamakwa took the Ford government to task for false claims it made last week that it had funded health specialists to be sent to the community.<\/p>\n
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\u201cLast week, this government claimed it funded an infectious disease specialist to conduct a full medical assessment of the community, and that additional nurses have been deployed in the community,\u201d said Mamakwa.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI spoke with the chief. The province has provided nothing.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWill this government stop playing games with the lives of children and families in Cat Lake, and send up the emergency health team the community so desperately needs now?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
During question period on Monday, NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa, said the Ford government is failing to take action for the people of Cat Lake First Nation, who are going into their second month under a state of emergency. \u201cCat Lake First Nation has asked this government for housing and health emergency relief,\u201d said Mamakwa, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indigenous","category-northern-ontario"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 12:39:01","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\/19656","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=19656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19657,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19656\/revisions\/19657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}