{"id":2912,"date":"2017-04-29T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2017-04-29T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T14:55:29","slug":"out-of-touch-wynne-budget-silent-on-grassy-narrows-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/29\/out-of-touch-wynne-budget-silent-on-grassy-narrows-contamination\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-touch Wynne budget silent on Grassy Narrows contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apr 29, 2017 @ 10:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2913\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sarah_Campbell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2913\" class=\"wp-image-2913 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Sarah_Campbell.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NDP Kenora-Rainy River MPP Sarah Campbell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NDP Kenora-Rainy River MPP Sarah Campbell\u00a0issued the following statement regarding the\u00a0fact that\u00a0the environmental contamination crisis at\u00a0Grassy Narrows was not mentioned in yesterday\u2019s provincial budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, we\u2019re seeing that the Wynne Liberals have no plan in place to clean up the English-Wabigoon River. Wynne has\u00a0no intention of offering\u00a0anything at all\u00a0to Ontario\u2019s First Nations\u00a0to clean up the river, according to her budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wynne Liberal government has ignored and downplayed the mercury contamination affecting the Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations for years, and the fact that it wasn\u2019t even mentioned in the budget at all just shows how out of touch Kathleen Wynne is with the issues affecting Ontarians.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater is life. Ontario\u2019s First Nations deserve clean drinking water, and a government that actually cares about helping them. This budget doesn\u2019t even begin to address decades of damage that\u00a0has\u00a0already been done, let alone help these communities rebuild and plan for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr 29, 2017 @ 10:30 &nbsp; NDP Kenora-Rainy River MPP Sarah Campbell\u00a0issued the following statement regarding the\u00a0fact that\u00a0the environmental contamination crisis at\u00a0Grassy Narrows was not mentioned in yesterday\u2019s provincial budget. &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cOnce again, we\u2019re seeing that the Wynne Liberals have no plan in place to clean up the English-Wabigoon River. Wynne has\u00a0no intention of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,38],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-provincial","tag-grassy-narrows"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 16:04:25","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\/2912","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}