All children in Canada have the right to attend proper schools

ATTAWAPISKAT SCHOOL FIGHT

This is a video of the fight for a grade school in the Cree community of Attawapiskat (Northern Ontario, Canada). Students from across Canada are being asked to fight for the principle that all children in Canada have the right to attend proper schools with proper funding.

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Chuck Strahl
Minister of Indian Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
Canada



Campaign for new native school hits YouTube
CTV News
A New Democrat MP has turned to YouTube in the fight to build a new school for the northern Ontario native community of Attawapiskat. The video has become one of the most watched political videos of the week.

Four hundred children in the community have been attending classes in portables since 2000. Parents pulled their children out of J.R. Nakogee School that year because of all the health problems reported since a massive diesel leak at the school in 1979.

The YouTube video, features stills of children holding signs such as "A school is like a heart, you need a healthy one" set to a version of "Stand by Me." At the end of the video, viewers are asked to write to Chuck Strahl, minister for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, about the school.

Charlie Angus, the NDP MP for Timmins - James Bay, said on Canada AM on Thursday that after years of broken government promises to build a new school, Strahl has put the plan on a "full stop."

Angus said that the children going to school in portables represents a major step-back in their education.

"There's an obligation that every child in this country is guaranteed the same rights to education," he said. "The only exception seems to be if you a First Nations child."
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