Our country of many solitudes

Indigenous communities often have less effective and appropriate infrastructure than non-Indigenous communities do.

Most Canadians consider clean drinking water, good roads, and adequate internet access to be baseline essentials, yet for many Indigenous communities, these infrastructure staples are not guaranteed, writes Jessica Vandenberghe and George Lee.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY JESSICA VANDENBERGHE AND GEORGE LEE

April 17, 2023

Our leaders and executives usually look to technical solutions that money can buy within political and fiscal timelines. This blinkered approach is steeped in capitalist, mixed-economy traditions and worldviews, and it often fails Canada's Indigenous communities, especially ...

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