Canadians still asleep on First Nations issues

Jim Crow? Apartheid? Let’s look closer to home, Nov. 27 Letter to the Editor

While I share letter writer Chris Faiers’ realization that “our national shame is much (worse) than previously thought,” I don’t feel that our personal epiphanies apply to Canada as a whole. Instead, I would compare our country’s citizens to hibernators. We might occasionally wake because of a bad dream or pain about our Indigenous peoples, but we soon roll over and resume our slumber because, tragically, we don’t care enough.

Craig Leach, Scarborough

On Indigenous issues, all parties must close the gap between words and actions, Sept. 15

How long will it be before the governments we elect make good on promises to follow through with reconciliation?

Money and communication have been the principal frontiers of what is being described as positive change, yet it appears that necessities such as clean drinking water are less important. Indigenous communities should be able to live on the land they have resided upon for generations without the pollutants from factories. Austin Ryan, Ajax