THUNDER BAY – EDITORIAL – When the images of families evacuated from Neskantaga First Nation arrived in Thunder Bay again this past week, it was not just a wake-up call—it was a damning indictment of decades of federal and provincial inaction.

The April 13 declaration of emergency—prompted by flooding that shut down the only nursing station—feels tragically familiar. Over 150 residents, many of them children and Elders, were evacuated to Thunder Bay, their lives once again uprooted by a failure not of nature, but of governance.

Neskantaga has lived under a boil water advisory since 1995. That’s nearly 30 years—a full generation—of warnings not to drink from the tap. In one of the wealthiest nations in the world, that is unconscionable.

Neskantaga Water Crisis – Why?

It is not just an infrastructure issue; it’s a human rights failure. Safe drinking water, access to health care, and clean, functioning public facilities should never be luxuries in this country.

This latest crisis is not an …