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Why Are There No Clean Water Projects Among Carney's Nation-Building Projects?

I can't help but notice that Prime Minister Carney's nation-building projects do not include lifting boil water advisories. Above: Long Term water advisories in Canada as of November 25, 2025 I recently read Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud, which was published in 2022. In this memoir, Abdelmahmoud writes: The 401 sails past the Tyendinaga First Nation, where the water is not safe to drink. The Mohawk territory has been under boil water advisory for a decade. A decade. Southern Ontario is an impossibly prosperous region, in part because of the 401. And yet cars pass by Tyendinaga, unaware of what its residents have to do just to simply drink a glass of water. - from Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud Fortunately, in Spring of 2022, the boil water advisory was lifted in the Tyendinaga First Nation, as reported by the CBC here: After 14 years, boil water advisory lifted for most in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory After reading, I did a quick search ...

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