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By Reid, Symoi, Adriel and Madelyn
Canada is known to be a very wealthy country. In funds, prosperity and specifically in water. Canada, holds 20% of the Earth's fresh water supply. With such an abundance of a necessary resource like water, it wouldn't be wrong to believe that the country's people have no concerns about their water sources and quality.
Unfortunately, this is false assumption. For years hundreds of marginalized communities have been swept under the rug by the canadian government. Namely, the First Nations. In this presentation, we will be discussing this as well as the causes and effects it has.
Each party has their own ideas as to how the land and its resources should be used. For example the indigenous’ beliefs are centered around nature and the land and the way to care, protect and use it. This leads to conflict as, historically, other parties such as the government and Europeans have stated that they would utilize the land better than the current occupants and can that led to them attempting, in some cases they were successful, to take that land for themselves or finding a way to disadvantage them in multiple ways. In this case, the neglect towards the First Nations’ water supplies.
Despite the fact that reserve lands are federally created, the reserves’ water allocations fall under either provincial water regimes or territorial water regimes.
This has led to, in some cases, provinces choosing to either refuse or fully cancel their reserves’ water allocations.
allocation- the process of distributing something.
regime- a system or planned way of doing something.
International human rights peoples and experts have raised concerns about the first nations water crisis.
In February 2016, nine first nations women traveled to tell the United Nations Committee on Economic, social and Cultural rights ( CESCR) that the water was making their families sick and undermining their spiritual connection with the water. One said that the problem was inequity and institutionalized discrimination that allows other non-native communities to get water but not the indigenous communities.
Donations have impacted the water crisis quite positively as donations help with allowing the first nations people have access to clean drinking water.