Attawapiskat Calling for State of Emergency

The Chief of the Northern community of Attawapiskat wants Ontario to declare a state of emergency to deal with what she says is a looming health crisis on her reserve.
Chief Theresa Spence says people on the reserve are living in makeshift tents with no plumbing or running water, some for as long as two years.
Many of those families include babies or young children, she says, and they are living in mouldy, overcrowded, unheated homes without fire alarms or smoke detectors.
With as many 90 people living in one trailer, Spence says immediate action is required before the winter deal with a growing risk of infectious diseases, burns and frostbite.
If the army has to be called in to evacuate children as an emergency measure, Spence says, then that’s what the government must do.
A video was posted to YouTube illustrating the state of housing on the reserve.