>The year is 2016. I am a photojournalist documenting the United Nations investigation into the tragedy in Alberta, Canada.
Good for you
>For months a deadly wildfire has been burning completely unchecked through northern Canada, leaving at least 3500 dead and economic damage estimated in the billions of canadian dollars (~300mil. USD 2016)
>Northern communities such as Fort McMurry are little more than oil conglomerate work camps, far from the reach of the government whose power is concentrated in the southern territories.
>"When the fires hit," says local medicine-man Doug Kennedy, "the oil companies took all their foreign experts and money and everything back to America." Leaving his community, he says "completely abandoned. Without the oil companies we have no government."
>>61289219
>local medicine man
>The Canadian authorities maintain the fire is the work of a serial arsonist "likely a chinese spy or group of spies" according to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, son of former leader Pierre Trudeau.
>Trudeau said in a national address last week he would "personally investigate the cause of this fire, find those responsible, and bring them to justice."
>But while in Toronto, presiding after the speech over an impressive military parade, Trudeau talks up the strength of his southern coalition, locals in the north say the fire is the result of their government abandoning them, and scoff at the ruling party's claim the fires are the result of "the worst terrorist attacks in modern history."
>>61289410
>likely a chinese spy
Is that Russia?
>>61290231
Isn't Canada a vegetable?
Hurry the fuck up, I'm finally rooting for the north in this civil war.
