The following remarks were given by Anita Campbell from Thompson at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings.
“And the effects that we have seen from Wuskwatim have not only affected our young people with many new children being born, but there has also been sexual exploitation. There is affected employment, it’s affected housing, it’s affected the safety of our community, it’s affected feeling secure and having that ability to walk within your own neighbourhoods. So it pretty much has had a lasting effect. I always put it this way in my mind, that money, when there’s an influx of money, and there was, it brings in gangs, which brings in drugs, which brings in an increase in crime. So, in my mind, that’s the formula we have been living for many years now.” – Anita Campbell, from Thompson
Testimony of Anita Campbell from Thompson. Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings. (December 3, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Volume 21; page 4663. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Transcripts_-_Keeyask_Winnipeg_Hearing_Dec_3,2013.pdf
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