Attawapiskat-Bound Homes Delayed

First Posted: 02/ 6/2012 3:12 pm Updated: 02/ 7/2012 2:35 pm


Modular homes en route to the northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat have been delayed because their lots are not yet ready, CBC News has learned.


The homes were supposed to be on the first trucks that left Sunday night when the 300-kilometre winter road opened to heavy trucks. But six of the first eight homes sent north have been parked in Moosonee and the drivers have been reassigned.


It's not clear when the homes will be sent, but CBC News has been told there's concern about the ability to get them in place within the next few weeks.


Recently the Attawapiskat First Nation did not win its injunction against the third party manager and a court has ruled that the review regarding the quashing of the appointment will be put off until the spring.


Additionally the court determined that money must be released to prepare the lots and get the houses in place.


ABORIGINAL PROTESTS: FROM OKA TO CALEDONIA
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    Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias "Freddy Kruger" come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kahnesatake reserve in Oka, Quebec, Saturday September 1, 1990. Twenty plus years after an armed standoff at Oka laid Canada's often difficult relationship with its native peoples bare in international headlines, the bitterly contested land remains in legal limbo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Shaney Komulainen)

  • Oka Crisis

    A warrior raises his weapon as he stands on an overturned police vehicle blocking a highway at the Kahnesetake reserve near Oka, Quebec July 11, 1990 after a police assault to remove Mohawk barriers failed. Twenty plus years after an armed standoff at Oka laid Canada's often difficult relationship with its native peoples bare in international headlines, the bitterly contested land remains in legal limbo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson)

  • Oka Crisis

    A Quebec Metis places a stick with an eagle feather tied to it into the barrel of a machine gun mounted on an army armored vehicle at Oka Thursday, Aug. 23, 1990. The vehicle was one of two positioned a few metres away from the barricade causing a breakdown in negotiations. Twenty plus years after an armed standoff at Oka laid Canada's often difficult relationship with its native peoples bare in international headlines, the bitterly contested land remains in legal limbo. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Grimshaw)

  • Oka Crisis

    A Mohawk Indian winds up to punch a soldier during a fight that took place on the Khanawake reserve on Montreal's south shore in 1990. The army broke up the fight by shooting into the air. Twenty plus years after an armed standoff at Oka laid Canada's often difficult relationship with its native peoples bare in international headlines, the bitterly contested land remains in legal limbo. (CP PHOTO)

  • Ipperwash

    Two aboriginal protesters man a barricade near the entrance to Ipperwash Provincial Park, near Ipperwash Beach, Ont., on Sept. 7, 1995. (CP PHOTO)

  • Ipperwash

    Ken Wolf, 9, walks away from a graffiti-covered smoldering car near the entrance to the Ipperwash Provincial Park in this September 7, 1995 photo. A group of aboriginal protesters were occupying the park and nearby military base. (CP PHOTO)

  • Caledonia Protests

    Caledonian activist Gary McHale (right) is confronted by a Six Nations Protester as he attempts to lead members of Canadian Advocates for Charter Equality (CANACE) in carrying a makeshift monument to Six Nations land in Caledonia, Ont., on Sunday February 27, 2011. CANACE claim inequality in treatment for Caledonian residents from Ontario Provincial Police compared to that of the Six Nation population. They planned to plant a monument of six nation property to demand an apology from the OPP, but were turned back by protesters. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

  • Caledonia Protests

    First Nations people of the Grand River Territory stand with protest signs as they force the redirection of the Vancover 2010 Olympic Torch Relay from entering The Six Nations land Monday, December 21, 2009 near Caledonia, Ontario. The Olympic torch's journey across Canada was forced to take a detour in the face of aboriginal opposition to the Games, with an Ontario First Nation rerouting its relay amid a protest from a splinter group in the community. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley)

  • Caledonia Protests

    Six Nations protesters guard the front entrance of a housing development in Hagersville, Ont., just south of the 15-month aboriginal occupation at Caledonia on Wednesday, May 23, 2007. The protest was peaceful. (CP PHOTO/Nathan Denette)

  • Caledonia Protests

    Mohawk protestors block a road near the railway tracks near Marysville, Ont. with a bus and a bonfire Friday April 21, 2006. The natives showed their support to fellow natives in Caledonia, Ont. where they were in a stand off with police regarding land claims.(CP PHOTO/Jonathan Hayward)

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Modular homes en route to the northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat have been delayed because their lots are not yet ready, CBC News has learned. The homes ...
Modular homes en route to the northern Ontario First Nations community of Attawapiskat have been delayed because their lots are not yet ready, CBC News has learned. The homes ...
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Warren Yuill
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12:54 PM on 02/08/2012
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12:14 PM on 02/08/2012
Please don't forget how to live the way your elders did.
It is important to have warm houses
while you work through Canada's growth period..
but please strive to learn the things your elders knew...
to continue to live after we have grown...
grown..captured..and lost...the throne.

"should've stayed on the farm."
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All Seeing Guy
Center of the storm
04:58 PM on 02/07/2012
"....have been delayed because their lots are not yet ready, CBC News has learned."

I see they're working around the clock to get their community ready for new housing units.
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ejais
09:46 PM on 02/07/2012
This is what happens when there is third party. The Third party manager has to ok the release of the monies to prep the sites. The chief and council have to have the proper paperwork in place so that the third party manager can ensure there is a "demand" or "request" then he puts the paperwork forward to Aboriginal Affairs. That is why the courts released monies for the prep work to be done. Look how long some reserves who are in third party have to wait for stupid things like changing locks with all the parties involved and paperwork.
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All Seeing Guy
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10:24 PM on 02/07/2012
""“This is what happens when there is third party"

Because they were evidently the model of efficiency and accountability before the 'third party'.
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SeeTheFnords
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12:55 AM on 02/07/2012
Too many questions raised, with no answers. Why was money for the foundations not released immediately upon ordering the darn houses? If there was a disagreement on the type of foundation best suited to the area and units, why was this not raised before now?

It saddens me to see this situation drag on, seemingly without end. Everyone blaming everyone except themselves.
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ejais
09:49 PM on 02/07/2012
That is what THIRD PARTY MANAGEMENT is. That is why it has not been successful with most FN who are under third party management. More paperwork. More Bureaucracy less being able to be done.
10:42 PM on 02/06/2012
They should call MP Stephen Woodworth. Apparently he values all life.
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Hal Wood
09:27 PM on 02/06/2012
There is no word for thankyou in the native culture . These homes are being paid for by the taxpayers. A Canadian taxpayer take most of their lifes to pay for their own homes.
10:09 PM on 02/06/2012
grow up
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Liz Wilson 2
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07:49 AM on 02/07/2012
because one or two of the FN languages may not have a word for thank you doesn't mean that they do not feel or express gratitude. Rather silly to try to make that implication. Also, at this point when they have been waiting for decades for a solution to the housing problem saying thankyou would be rather insincere.
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DebbyM
08:28 AM on 02/08/2012
Maybe a better phrase would be "well it's about time".
05:50 PM on 02/06/2012
ProgressiveCDN, just watched a segment on the evening news regarding this story and thought I"d try to find out more online. the newscast stated that the only thing the natives had to do was prepare foundations for the modular homes to be placed on. Concrete was recomended the natives decided that gravel and cinderblockes were a better solution even though they were told that they would be potentially damaging the homes and still after all that they still did nothing... no foundations to put the new homes they are in such dire need for. Free home and all you need to do is build a foundation to put it on and you still can't be bothered? I find it hard to have any sympathy for these people anymore, they put themselves in this position with mismanagement of their funds and when the government steps up to assist with thier crisis they still do absolutly nothing to help thier cause.
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ejais
06:54 PM on 02/06/2012
First of all its not "the natives"...its the chief and council with the third party manager who has to delegate the job and get it done. Secondly the very last line of this article states the courts determined money be released for prepping the lots. NO MONEY can be touched unless the third party manager releases the money. That is why third party has only worked once in the history of its inception with FN. By the time it takes for paperwork and TPM to get the ball rolling for anything on reserve the situation becomes critical and time is money.
10:11 PM on 02/06/2012
Your thoughts are really not worth expressing. Racism and ignorance go hand in hand.
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05:21 PM on 02/06/2012
No Surprise Here. It's not like they're real Canadians right? They're so far removed from what most Canadians see everyday, why should we care about them?
It's not like it's a state of emergency or anything... Just let them waste away with diseases and no shelter in the middle of winter.. Who said Canada has a conscious??
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Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
03:32 AM on 02/07/2012
It's only affecting those who are not related to the Chief and Council members. It's like that on most reserves. Corruption and nepotism are epidemic in the native communities. Because it's not politically correct to discuss this, nothing to solve the underlying problems ever gets done. Southerners who don't live up here will never understand what it's really like because their viewpoint is controlled by media propaganda, not first hand experience.
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ProgressiveCDN
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03:46 PM on 02/08/2012
Agreed. Although, I am a southerner, I live in Manitoba and have heard too many horrendous stories (from both whites & natives) to accept the status quo... Sadly, most people do accept the status quo
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05:14 PM on 02/06/2012
Not surprising once the media eyes are somewhere else it business as usual!