White folks and non-Indigenous POC in Ontario should have paid more attention to the lived experiences and needs of people in Western Canada over the past 10 years. Doing so is the right thing to do and likely would have minimized the disaster we're experiencing in Ontario.

– and over the past 100s of years, white people in Canada should have listened to Indigenous peoples – who were forced to migrate from their lands* because Indigenous peoples are disproportionally experiencing, for significantly longer, the catastrophic effects of this climate emergency they played no part in creating.