Team ready for Ipperwash cleanup

[Shwa]

Interesting story from Canoe:

Team ready for Ipperwash cleanup

The camp was taken from the band during the Second World War by the federal government, which promised to return it two years after the war ended.

It remains government land but is occupied by members of the band. The base was used to train soldiers on how to use weapons like bazookas, grenades and rifles.

"There's still a lot of garbage out there," Cloud said. "We had a shell wash up on the beach at Port Franks in the summer and there was another found in a tree in the park a few weeks ago."

Cloud said half of the camp has been surveyed and early indications are that it could take between 10 to 15 years and millions of dollars to fully remediate the park.

The band is still in negotiations with the federal government over its return. They hope to have a plan in place by March 2012, she said.

Seems like a promising start to correcting some serious mistakes.

[Wild Bill]

Seems like a promising start to correcting some serious mistakes.

A clear cut case of the government being in the wrong. Should never have happened! The argument for the need to use the land for wartime is one thing. Not giving it back when promised is quite another.

[Topaz]

Knowing how the Feds work they will keep talking anf talking and stalling anf stalling until some child gets killed and then they have the money!