Contest the assertion in Section 15.3.2 that the non-Indigenous health baseline is 'sufficiently advanced' given the identified gaps in mental health, addiction treatment, and senior services.
Strategic Rationale
"The Proponent's submission lists significant service gaps (e.g., lack of residential addiction treatment, crisis response) but does not quantify the current wait times or service ratios. For Melgund, where social support infrastructure is non-existent, accurate quantitative baseline metrics are required to measure future project impacts. The community cannot assess the 'significance' of future effects without a rigorous quantitative baseline of these existing deficits to prove that the project will not worsen the 'disparity in access' mentioned in the text."
Source Context
Understanding the Impacts of Nuclear Waste on our Community
This digital archive houses the public comments submitted to the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada regarding Project 88774: The Nuclear Waste Management Organization Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada's Used Nuclear Fuel Project. The impact assessment is led jointly by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. This archive preserves community perspectives, concerns, and observations shared during the assessment process, particularly in relation to Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario and the communities of Dyment and Borups Corners who are the closest and most impacted of all in the process.