People here are all "Why has the government been just paying lip service and never doing anything? Why don't they actually DO something concrete?"
In the link below, Chantal Hebert hits the nail on the head. Because they can. There is extremely little upside to putting government resources into fixing the problem. How many people in this thread are going to the ballot box and voting on the basis of whether the Shoal Lake First Nations have clean drinking water? According to Ipsos in 2019, the top concerns for Canadian voters, by order of importance, were "Health Care", "Cost of Living", "Climate Change", "Growing the Economy", "High Taxes", "Housing Affordability", "Immigration", "Social Inequality", "Seniors Care", "Corruption in Government", "Improving Education", "Government Debt", "Unemployment".
Where is "Indigenous Issues" in the list? I don't see it. People just don't care. So if a government makes all kinds of flowery promises and does not keep them because it is too expensive and too complicated... that's fine. There is absolutely no political cost to breaking your promises.
By the time an election is called, this will be off the front page of the newspapers and it will all be forgotten. And we will move on and pretend it all didn't happen. Like Canada always has done.
Listening to the Tragically Hip's last concert, I turned to my wife and I said "I feel incredibly sad that Gord is likely going to die soon. But at least he won't have to witness just how depressingly horribly Trudeau will not live up to his expectations."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north...ople-1.3729996
"At Issue" from last night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOcflp_pxbg