Protesters Drown Out Housing Announcements, Demand Mercury Justice

0:00Prime Minister Mark Carney Ontario, premier Doug Ford, and Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, announced plans for new housing and transit projects in Atopakoke on Monday. But protesters from grassy narrows and Wabasimu and First Nations drown them out with chance and speeches. The demonstrators rally right across the street from the unfinished construction site, demanding compensation for decades of mercury poisoning and, pushing forward to shut down the dried in mill, which they say keeps making the problem worse by spiking mercury in local fish. Inside the building, officials struggled to speak over the noise, and at one point a woman shouted for justice from grassy narrows while Carney was at. The podium, prompting him to joke that he could outlast her, which drew last from the crowd. These communities once thrived on fishing, but mercury contamination wrecked their fisheries, leading to health issues, job losses, food shortages, and cultural erosion that still hits hard today. Carney later shrugged it off, saying protests are part of Canada and entirely appropriate,

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