Chiefs: asked for toilets, got pails | Manitoba

Chiefs: asked for toilets, got pails | Manitoba | News | Winnipeg Sun

PAUL TURENNE, WINNIPEG SUN - They asked for bathrooms, or at least porta-potties, and they got five-gallon pails.
Chiefs representing First Nations from the Island Lake area of northern Manitoba held a press conference Thursday to lament Ottawa's response to immediate, short-term help while they discuss how to hook the communities up with running water and proper sewage in the long term.
"They agreed to help us with short-term solutions. Their solutions are slop pails and 45-gallon drums. That's not acceptable," said Chief Dino Flett, of the Garden Hill First Nation. "In some houses, 15 people have to use that slop pail. That's not safe. That's not healthy."
Chiefs from the Island Lake area bands met with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada last ..