The Environment Minister of Ontario has apologized to the heads of the First Nation for any “confusion”, when he asked the federal government not to resume a bill, which would increase the right drinking water rights in the law.
But many first nations are not accepting what they say a meaningless apology and still want Tod Macarthi to be removed.
Anisinaback Nation Grand Chief Linda Dibasigige says that Macarthi’s letter is derogatory, and the biggest issue is that he has not withdrawn his request to the federal government.
Last month, Macarthi and Alberta Environment Minister Rebecca Shulz wrote to the federal environment minister Julie Dabrusin to ask him to get away from the law, he says that “he would delay the development of the project and reduce competition.”
He sang Bill C -61, the law introduced in the final Parliament demanded to ensure that the first nations had access to drinking water cleaning and they could protect fresh water sources on their areas.
The bill faced the process of a long committee, but Parliament was not passed in the law before Parliament earlier this year, and Dabrusin said last week that his government plans to resume it in a decline.
Macarthi says that the province has always supported the right to clean drinking water in all first nations.