Environment committee  Yes. That's a difficult question for me to answer. I think I'm stumped.

Environment committee  No, I'm always a hopeful person. That's just my personality. I think the bill is very pointed. It's obviously just a bill. It's a page long. It's not extremely detailed, but it speaks to all of the issues that are important to me in terms of the collection of data, the intersect

Environment committee  No. I haven't looked necessarily at the federal, but my work has mostly focused on the provincial and the Department of Environment. With Africville it was the City of Halifax, of course, which created that problem. It was both a problem of gentrification or urban renewal as wel

Environment committee  No, that's a bit incorrect.

Environment committee  Some indigenous communities have asked for indigenous-led environmental assessments because they felt excluded. There's this term, as you know, “participatory democracy”. It's not simply about including people in decision-making, but also the way you do that in culturally specifi

Environment committee  This is another form of systemic and environmental racism. We have racism in housing. We have racism in health. We have racism in education. We have racism in every single social structure in this country and in every country around the world. I'm not sure if I remember your que

Environment committee  Yes. As Lenore said, you can't address a problem unless you know what the problem is. The collection of race-based data for this bill, the collection of race-based data by race and socio-economic status, environmental risk, and also health outcomes is very crucial. We know what'

Environment committee  Is that for Dr. Waldron?

Environment committee  I have no idea where it should go, but I do know that it shouldn't go in an indigenous community again, right? That's what, I guess, environmental assessments are for, right? Environmental assessments are about determining where particular projects go. Thus far, environmental ass

Environment committee  The spacial patterning of industries primarily in indigenous and other racialized communities is an outcome of systemic racism that has been inscribed within environmental policy and is not dissimilar from any other policy, whether you're talking about health policy, policy in ed

Environment committee  We are not the individuals you choose to protect over your group. That's how—

Environment committee  There's a burgeoning climate justice movement in Canada and around the world. That movement demonstrates quite clearly that environmental racism and the placement of polluting industries in certain communities is inextricably linked to climate change in several ways. The kinds o

Environment committee  Dear members of the environment and sustainability committee, I would like to thank you for inviting me to speak to Bill C-230, and environmental racism more broadly. I would like to begin by addressing arguments—persistent arguments over the years—that since race is not a biolo