“This is what we want to do because we want to hear our voices,” Munias told CBC News.

“if [prime minister] If you don’t want to come, it’s better to ask someone to carry your voice. “

The New Democracy Party hopes that Singh’s visit can capitalize on this disappointment by moving indigenous voters away from the Liberal Party.

The number of Indigenous voters who voted in 2015 reached a record high to help elect a majority Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“I think for many aboriginal voters, what they found is that they got a lot of words, a lot of promises, a lot of promises from the government, but they didn’t take follow-up actions,” said Anne McGrath of the New Democratic Party. The country director told CBC News.

While visiting Neskantaga, Singh also met with forest fire evacuees from aboriginal people in northern Ontario, and they called on the Ontario Progressive Conservative Government to provide more support.

He also became the first federal leader to visit the site of the former Kamloops Indian boarding school in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, where a ground penetrating radar expert reported 200 possible cemeteries.

Singh’s tour is basically out of the national media’s attention, and there is no major media follow-up-this is an unusual strategy when the general election is expected to be held in a few weeks.

“We just spent a year and a half doing a lot of things virtually,” McGrath said. “I think that if you are there in person, the impact of government policies on people will be more obvious. Just like you see mold in substandard housing, if you see having to live close to a roof, if you don’t see The impact of safe water…really brought it home.

“I also think that for many of the communities we are talking about, this contact makes a lot of sense for them.”

NDP seeks a breakthrough when it turns 60

This tour coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the New Democratic Party on August 3.

The party has 24 seats in the House of Commons, and elections are generally expected to be held soon.In an interview with CBC House When it aired on Saturday, Singh said he thought the party could emphasize its work to pressure the government from the opposition seat and persuade voters that it is ready to form a government.

“We can show examples of what we can do in a minority with only 24 seats. Imagine what we can do with more NDPs. Imagine what the NDP government can do,” he said.

“We can show the results… Nearly 8 million Canadians across Canada who need CERB have received more help because we are there. Workers who can keep their jobs can keep their jobs from 10% to 75% because of our efforts to increase wage subsidies. . We will share these victories with Canadians.”

In the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc case, Singh stated that he hopes to use the vacancy created by the public’s grief and anger following the reported discovery of unmarked graves at the site of the former boarding school to promote more ambitious action.

“This gives me a lot of hope. In fact, Canadians themselves are saying that we must do something about it,” he said. “What can we do? For me, this is the motivation we need to build.”

Singh said the government under his leadership will act quickly to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue crimes against indigenous peoples, support every community that wants to find and investigate cemeteries on the former boarding school grounds, and end government targeting Canadian human rights court proceedings. The court ruling ordered compensation for indigenous children facing discrimination.

In Neskantaga, Singh listened to 14 community members, including children who have lived under boiling water all their lives, such as 10-year-old Bee Moonias.

“She said,’I am a 10-year-old girl who is fighting for clean drinking water,'” Singh said. “For me, it was heartbreaking and heartache.”

Singh promised to continue to defend Neskantaga. He said that if elected, he will fund a new water treatment plant and community distribution system.

“The Neskantaga community says we need a suitable water treatment plant and a better distribution system, and the New Democratic Party government will undoubtedly provide this,” Singh said.

Wayne Moonias, the current head of Neskantaga, told CBC News that he is not sure when the boiling water warning will be lifted, so it is important to have a federal leader present.

“The community is very grateful for this visit,” Munias said. “It shows that someone really wants to see what’s happening with their own eyes.”

Chris Moonias is not as optimistic as he used to be about lifting the boiling water warning. He said that the maintenance of the water treatment plant still did not generate the right pressure.

He said he had voted for the Liberal Party in the past, but did not think he would vote in the next federal election.

“There are many breaches of promise,” he said.