By Maya Ekman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY \u2013 The call to shut down the Dryden mill over the ongoing impact on mercury contamination downstream is \u201ca big responsibility on the federal government,\u201d said Premier Doug Ford . \u201cWe do more for the First Nations than the feds. Ten times more,\u201d he said at a press conference in Thunder Bay June 15. \u201cOn reserve, the federal government should be supporting the Indigenous communities.\u201d \u201cNumber one priority is to have clean drinking water for everyone in Ontario, but again, where are the feds? Where are they?\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re pouring money into First Nations. I’d love to support them any way we can,\u201d said Ford. In the 1960s and 1970s, the then-owners of the Dryden mill dumped nine to… <\/p>\n
By Maya Ekman, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, NWOnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY \u2013 The call to shut down the Dryden mill over the ongoing impact on mercury contamination downstream is \u201ca big responsibility on the federal government,\u201d said Premier Doug Ford . \u201cWe do more for the First Nations than the feds. Ten times more,\u201d he said at a press conference in Thunder Bay June 15. \u201cOn reserve, the federal government should be supporting the Indigenous communities.\u201d \u201cNumber one priority is to have clean drinking water for everyone in Ontario, but again, where are the feds? Where are they?\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re pouring money into First Nations. I’d love to support them any way we can,\u201d said Ford. In the 1960s and 1970s, the then-owners of the Dryden mill dumped nine to... <\/p>\n