Kanada hat die gesetzliche Pflicht, den abgelegenen First Nations sicheres Wasser und Unterkünfte zur Verfügung zu stellen, Bundesrichterregeln | CBC-Nachrichten

I completely agree that we should be building clean drinking water infrastructure on reserves and in indigenous communities; no Canadian should have to go without clean drinking water, it is should be considered a basic human-right.

However, the ruling on housing is a little confusing. The federal government does not have an obligation to provide housing to all non-indigenous communities, despite virtually every city and town facing homelessness crises. So, why does the government have the legal obligation to provide housing to indigenous peoples, but not non-indigenous peoples?

I agree that housing should be a human-right and the government should be doing more to provide low-income housing. However, to have legal obligation to provide one group of Canadians with this right, but not the other group of Canadians, then all we’re legally doing is creating a legal framework for two different classes of Canadians with separate rights and freedoms.

Either the government should have the legal obligation to provide housing to all Canadians, or none. To have separate laws for separate races just feels wrong.