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Inuit Meet Chilly Response in Montreal

kropotkin1951
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Joined: Jun 6 2002
June 4, 2010 - 12:39pm

Embarassed

Some days the news is so embarrassing.

 

 


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kropotkin1951
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June 4, 2010 - 12:43pm
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This is pamphlet is hate speech and those who produced it should be found. I hope that the good people of this suburb send this racist Mayor packing in the next election.  I am so disgusted by this profiling of native people as drug addicted "outsiders."."

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Someone has been distributing leaflets in Villeray that warn of drug addicts moving into the neighbourhood, bringing crime and reducing the quality of life.

"They had put out flyers around the building the other day, saying that their community is at risk or in danger because of this group of people trying to locate to their area," Jeannie May, executive director of the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, told CBC News on Thursday.

The borough mayor, Annie Samson, has also voiced opposition to the project.

"When you take 125 people who are away from home, it's the novelty of it. It's the big city. Of course things will happen," she told Radio-Canada in May.

"If you tell me there won't be any incivility, you're lying."

Samson has since said that probably won't happen, but said she is still concerned the borough of Villeray-Saint-Michel-Park-Extension will incur extra costs in services for Inuit staying at the facility.

She expressed frustration at the provincial health and social services agency for choosing Villeray as the site in a way she calls heavy-handed.

She told the CBC it would make more sense to build the facility closer to the city's English hospitals, where most of the Inuit receive health services.



Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/06/03/villeray-inuit-transit-house.html#ixzz0pu41vvTc


Pants-of-dog
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Joined: May 17 2010
June 11, 2010 - 11:09am
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Obvioulsy the pamphleteers have some sort of idea that people in need of medical care are going to spend a lot of time partying and causing trouble.


Bubbles
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Joined: Feb 21 2003
June 11, 2010 - 12:18pm
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Yes it is sad to see, what could be such an enriching experience, start in such negative way. As a non-Inuit I lived for four years in Inuit communities and was always made to feel welcome to their communities. Sure difficulties and misunderstanding do come up, but that is very much compensated for by the new insights one is exposed to.


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