FW: My 2 cents worth on Message Forwarded from George Read re issue for the Siksika Nation (and all of us who drink from the Bow)

Subject: My 2 cents worth on Message Forwarded from George Read re issue
for the Siksika Nation (and all of us who drink from the Bow)

It has been a while since I engaged in the lively, progressive, and
impressive policy development sessions at Doctor Ellie's.

I miss them. So with Peter here in Edmonton I hope to develop some similar
plan and work with Ellie's group and move the party to the next level of
truly engaging Albertan's on policies that are effective and what they want.

Now for my 2 cents worth.

I think the Alberta Green Party should make an application to be heard
onthis matter and support the actions of the Siksika Nation, based on the
fact that dumping raw sewage into any waterway should be considered illegal.

The issue of dumping or flushing raw sewage into any waterway, should be
made illegal by any provincial, civic or federal government. This is a
federal issue because what is flushed into the Bow ends up in the drinking
water in towns, cities, and villages from it's head waters to the ocean in
empties into in the Hudson Bay.

It should not be a native issue, or women's issue, or someother group's
issue. It should be an issue and policy that the Alberta Green Party says is
fundamentally wrong, and it would never happen under the leadership of the
Alberta Green Party when we become the government.

In a recent article/letter published in the Edmonton Journal over the names
of three Chief's of First Nations in Northen Alberta B.C., and the North
West Territories, who belong to a group eho are concerned with, affected by
what we in the southern part of Canada do to their Dehcho and Mackenzie
River waterways. They state in part that all people in these two basins have
a fundamental right to water. Clean wter, water that is drinkable by their
people.

We as a Provincial Party must start by stating that we agree with this
principle, but for all people. Take a look at their web site at:
www.dehchofirstnations.com.

Instead of us trying to come up with policy to deal with one First Nation's
concerns community by community, we can do much better for them, if we come
up with policies that make sense for all Albertans.

As I mentioned in a previous missive, we should as a party start to
proactively go out to the First Nations communities and talking to them aout
what policies we as a provincial party should adopt so that we might help
them live the same healthy lives that we in the rest of Alberta do. Then we
can then say to them that if they want to see real change at the provincial
political level, then the Green Party is really their best choice to work in
and with.