The following remarks were given by Noah Massan from Fox Lake Cree Nation at the Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings.
“…I got this thing they call Kennedy disease. According to the doctor, they said it is your muscles is drying up. They took tests on me. And they ask me, ask your mom, did she have it? My mom can’t tell me where it come from. Even today, I don’t know where it has come from. You know, before in ‘60s there was nobody sick in my community hardly. The sickness now that’s coming up, you know, a lot of people is diabetic.” – Noah Massan, Fox Lake Cree Nation
Testimony of Noah Massan from Fox Lake Cree Nation. Manitoba Clean Environment Commission (MCEC). Keeyask Generation Project Public Hearings. (December 9, 2013). Transcript of Hearings Held at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. Volume 24; page 5436. Retrieved from the MCEC website: http://cecmanitoba.ca/hearings/keeyask-generation-project/doc/Transcripts/Transcripts_-_Keeyask_Winnipeg_Hearing_Dec_9,2013.pdf
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