When I saw these stats for life expectancy, I wondered how Covid deaths contributed. As for Saskatchewan's drop in life expectancy and opioid deaths, etc., I can just hear the right wing ultra conservative bunch saying things like, Oh, it's the aboriginal population that skew our numbers. Our SaskParty government just doesn't care. If it's not business-related, it's not important and, since aboriginal voters have no money, they are not important. The government does, however, love to get involved when huge federal grants or investment dollars are dedicated to aboriginal resource projects. That they pay attention to. Sad. Sad. Sad.
When I saw these stats for life expectancy, I wondered how Covid deaths contributed. As for Saskatchewan's drop in life expectancy and opioid deaths, etc., I can just hear the right wing ultra conservative bunch saying things like, Oh, it's the aboriginal population that skew our numbers. Our SaskParty government just doesn't care. If it's not business-related, it's not important and, since aboriginal voters have no money, they are not important. The government does, however, love to get involved when huge federal grants or investment dollars are dedicated to aboriginal resource projects. That they pay attention to. Sad. Sad. Sad.