.EllenPage tackles environmental racism in her new doc
Behind the idyllic houses and picturesque landscape façade of Ellen Page’s home province of Nova Scotia lies a disturbing reality that has been ignored for far too long. Toxic fallout from industrial development and contaminated drinking water due to waste dumps have caused cancer rates to rise to critical levels—and disproportionately affect Indigenous and Black communities living in remote, low-income areas.
“I just really want to help…use my privilege and platform and to continue to educate myself and do what I could to amplify her work and the work of all these activists,” explains Page. “I felt like something needed to happen. Those communities were being destroyed. People are dying. They’re being killed, quite frankly.”
Page admits that it feels weird to think of herself as a “known” person, but her celebrity also gives her a megaphone that she’s able to use to give others a voice, too. In the doc, we see Page visiting her hometown of Halifax and talking to some of the activists, but ultimately she gets out of the way and gives them a chance to speak for themselves.
Page hopes that this doc sparks an interest in the issue. “Educate yourself,” she responds when asked about the most important thing for Canadians to know about the environmental racism in N.S. “We’ve got to make ourselves aware and learn about the reality of our history. I didn’t learn our history; I didn’t learn it at all. And we have to start having the real conversations about how Canada deals with these issues. It needs to be discussed and addressed and dealt with.
According to Waldron’s research , local Indigenous and Black communities also tend to vote significantly less than others in the province, convinced that nothing’s ever going to change. This notion is reinforced by a lack of action by the politicians that claim to represent them.
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