True Left

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bill-aims-force-canada-tackle-100002804.html

For generations, marginalized communities in Canada have feared that heavy industry is slowly poisoning their air, land and water.

Aamjiwnaang First Nation, a small Indigenous reserve in Ontario surrounded on all sides by chemical facilities, has recorded anomalies in birth rates. Residents in Lincolnville, a Black community in Nova Scotia, suspect that a nearby landfill is the source of high cancer rates.

Ingrid Waldron, a sociology professor at Dalhousie University, has spent years interviewing residents of such communities, collecting data on environmental racism – the disproportionate presence of heavy industry and waste close to Black and Indigenous communities.

“It’s a term that brings them together with this collective shared experience around pollution and contamination in their community,” said Waldron, who turned the years of research into the book, There’s Something in the Water, and a documentary directed by actor Elliot Page.
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In a visit to Canada, human rights expert Baskut Tuncak found “blatant disregard for Indigenous rights”.

“Canada has the financial ability and the technical capacity to do things better. It still lags behind many of its peers in terms of industrialized countries. When it comes to environmental performance, its record on compliance leaves a lot of room for improvement,” he previously told the Guardian.

But rightists will continue with their narrative that the reason why "non-whites" try to move into predominantly "white" neighbourhoods is because "whites" are "better neighbours".....