maxine🌸

I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning. I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires. These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive: "No fire crews left for new fires." "We had no warning." Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs. This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario. I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars. @fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds. But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services. Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership. #onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC