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First Nations Water Crisis

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.

introduction

How do differences in land use (European/Government/Indigenous) lead to conflict over land ownership?

Topic 1

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.

Impacts of Environmental racism

Despite the fact that reserve lands are federally created, the reserves’ water allocations fall under either provincial water regimes or territorial water regimes.

Topic 2

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.

Continued.

Canada has used, and continues to use, the indigenous peoples’ reliance on fisheries to justify giving the reserves much smaller allocations than the rest of the country including areas that are near water bodies like the fisheries.

However, Canada has also reduced the indigenous’ access to their fisheries or have limited their access to fishing licenses and other equipment like what we saw during the Nova Scotia lobster feud.

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Impacts of responses

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.

Topic 3

Donations have impacted the water crisis quite positively as donations help with allowing the first nations people have access to clean drinking water.

Although the government was hesitant to put aside part of the budget toward the treaty reserves Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would use significant funds to address failing infrastructure in First Nations communities. Which has been fairly successful although many first nation communities still don't have clean drinking water.

Government responses

In conclusion despite the governments funds many first nation communities still don't have access to clean water

Summary

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