2.27.2009

No Schools For NDP Ridings?

This one should've been in Thursday's Six In The Morning...unfortunately there wasn't one for reasons of editor laziness.

In brief: an NDP member of Parliament gets hold of an e-mail from an Indian Affairs official through an FOI request (wonder how long it took) that could be interpreted as saying the reason a school planned for an Ontario reserve hasn't been built yet is because the reserve is in an opposition riding.

In fact the official's exact quote is: "The existing facility is a 30 to 40 year old wood structure. No real issue, just sitting in (an) opposition riding."

Here's a link to a story in the Toronto Star, and here's a one to NDP MP Charlie Angus' Web page.

Do the Tories hold up school construction on reserves in opposition ridings? You decide.

(This post has been edited to reduce incoherence)

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