This documentary piece shows how our country is viewed by the rest of the world, for our inaction on climate change, and our short-sighted intransigence in developing the Alberta tar sands.
It shows how Canada is treating the people of Fort Chipewan, how Canada is exposing people to proven carcinogens, with resulting high rates of cancer and premature death. To write it, to say that Canada’s policies are killing its own citizens, seems like some kind of blasphemy or extremism. It isn't. It's the reality - the extreme belief in the almighty dollar, and the terror of change, the inability to treat fellow citizens with love and respect - that's the blasphemy.
The tar sands directly cost Canadians $1 billion in taxpayer subsidies every year. That in itself is unacceptable. Add the indirect costs to reputation, health, local and global environment and economy, the indirect costs to our future, and one must either cry, or act, or both.
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