Environment committee  I spoke to Laurel Collins, our member of Parliament for Victoria, and told her my concern about the Crofton mill overusing the resources, the resources being water. I had just heard that they were dumping some of the waste, or it was leaking into the water. That is causing a lot of damage, not just to the ocean but to the river too.

Environment committee  I think the government needs to come and sit down and listen to the people who live by the water. The water is life. We're committing genocide against the land.

Environment committee  Hi, everybody. I'm from the Cowichan Nation. I left home when I was 14 and moved to Vancouver. I came back to the island 20 years ago. I went to the Cowichan River and I noticed the water was very shallow, only about a foot deep. Every year that I went back, it was getting more and more shallow, so I asked somebody about that.