Mr. Speaker, on this Thanksgiving weekend the children of Attawapiskat have very little to give thanks for because we have flu and the winter season quickly approaching. Yet on the James Bay coast we have families who are living now in unheated tents without running water, tents because four months ago their homes were flooded with sewage.
Indian Affairs and the government have nickeled and dimed this community over the most basic reconstruction, health and sanitary aid.
I am pleading with the minister. Will he show leadership? Will he come to Attawapiskat and see the misery that these families are living in?