Autumn Peltier on youth activism, challenging Trudeau, and a future in politics
Do you think that if the government would just put more money and attention toward boil water advisories they would be a thing of the past? Is it a matter of political will?
"That’s always their excuse, that they don’t have the funding or the resources to do that. But just think about how fast it would be resolved and fixed if there was to be a drinking water issue in an area like Toronto or Ottawa, how fast they would call that a state of emergency and how fast they would fix that.
But a First Nations community of 200, 300, 400 people can go without clean drinking water for over 30 years, where they literally have to bathe their babies in bottled water, cook and clean with bottled water, wash themselves with bottled water."
The rest of her interview. She is eighteen and confronted Trudeau previously when she was twelve!