In reply to Mustreadthis.

I am going out on a limb to reply to this. I'm going to ask you to follow-up with language that's a little less aggressive and, frankly, racist.
1. I don't think I am missing the point. The point is that the money spent is being portrayed as a sufficient or even excessive amount of money. My point is, it's not. It's average-- possibly less than average.
2. I'm not actually calling for anyone to do anything. I AM suggesting that the Canadian government hasn't spent excessive amounts of money on Attawapiskat. I'm doing this because up until the point I wrote this, the general tone of debate was "holy cow, look how much money we've spent and they've wasted it!" whereas the reality is the money spent was average for government to spend on any community-- potentially less than average. It was an attempt to start the discussion on that ground, rather than the assumption that Attawapiskat was getting way more money than other communities.
3. Even if I were calling on someone to do something, it's not "the white man." And it's definitely not to save "the little indians." To use those words in the same place you call me racist is just ridiculous.
4. "do you really think the band didn't know what the living conditions were like in their own community, yet they said and did nothing. why?"
The band did know what their living conditions were like. It's been an ongoing issue that they've been raising over the last decade. The latest state of emergency that they called was the third in three years.
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I have no doubt the people of Attawapiskat or any other group of people can look after themselves just fine. That said, we live in a country where people receive funds from the government for things like infrastructure, education, and health care. I assume you live in Canada and receive these benefits. The point of my post is to highlight the fact that ALL Canadians receive government money for these things, and the amount that Attawapiskat received over the last six years was about on par with what anyone else got. Not excessive amounts.
Your claim that the band said and did nothing does prove that you haven't done much research into this issue, as the opposite has been stated in pretty much every media report on this story. I sincerely hope you take the time to look a little more deeply into this issue.