Imagine Indigenous legal principles and values leading a coordinated freshwater decision-making? It can be part of Canada’s freshwater future, given the Canada Water Agency mandate to ensure collaboration and coordination amongst federal departments, with provincial governments and with Indigenous nation partners relating to freshwater. In the past, Indigenous voices have often been disregarded or silenced in water governance decision-making spaces. The new federal approach, which aims to redefine Canada’s water future, is an opportunity to engage with Indigenous science, knowledge, laws, values, principles and process in order to help ensure sustainability. While water defies jurisdictional boundaries, Indigenous historical and contemporary approaches to water governance have the potential to engage across those boundaries (geo-political, disciplinary and conceptual) to enhance collaborative and sustainable water governance. The talk will canvass three unique approaches within the Lake Winnipeg Watershed (the second largest in Canada) as case studies for Indigenous-led water governance and draw some common themes relating to indigenized and decolonial water governance.
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- Centre for Law and the Environment
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