Environment committee  Thank you. That’s not an easy question. Changing a person’s vision about water is hard. For me, it took me several years. In the past, I talked about it a lot as a resource. A resource is defined as something we use for our own well-being, our own goals. The paper I’m using to

Environment committee  We are presenting a tripartite model of governance, including a Guardian Committee and a Strategic Committee, where all the actors are around the table to ultimately consider the river’s higher interests. Everyone will act in their own interest; however, the guardians must alway

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The Magpie River has legal personhood status. In Canada, it’s the first river to get this kind of status. So, with legal personhood, the river has rights. The guardians of the river are people from the Ekuanitshit Innu community and the Minganie RMC.

Environment committee  With regard to the issue of water use in agriculture, I don't think the problem is price, but rather water contamination. The quantity of products used leads to contamination of the water used for irrigation, and this contaminates rivers. There's also the fact that farmers culti

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I brought a document that explains the rights of the river. One of those rights is to be free from pollution. I also have an article that talks about some areas of the St. Lawrence River that are completely polluted. Contamination doesn't just come fr

Environment committee  I will give them to you a bit later.

Environment committee  I've always been against the massive export of water. Water has a lot of value, but it has no price. Water is an essential resource and it must always be attached to the environment, to its surroundings. There's also the question of royalties—I'm thinking, for example, of bottl

Environment committee  Thank you very much for your question and for your interest in this topic, Ms. Pauzé. Indeed, section 8 of the act affirming the collective nature of water resources and promoting better governance of water and associated environments, in Quebec is very avant-garde, as it introd

Environment committee  In fact, in Ecuador, we've recognized nature's rights. At first, it was symbolic, because it was about changing people's relationship with nature so that they see it as a living being or a person who can suffer harm. Symbolic gestures can change the way we look at things. The Can

Environment committee  Good evening to you all. I would like to thank the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development for inviting us to participate in this study. Ms. Amélie Delage, who is also a member of the International Observatory on Nature's Rights, and I are honoured to

Environment committee  We've been studying different water management models around the world for 15 years, and we've seen that water has two opposing statuses. There's water as a common good, off-limits to and inappropriate for trade, to which access is also a fundamental human right. There is also wa