Our ecosystems and…

Our ecosystems and biodiversity are deteriorating at a faster rate than ever recorded in human history. As climate change advances and accelerates this trend, we must take environmental precautions more seriously than ever before. The government may defer to the current economic issues as a cause for this motion, but those economic impacts will be short lived in the context of the environmental destruction that may effectively never be reversed as a consequence of these changes. That aside, we also cannot abandon Indigenous agency in these dialogues when convenient. Indigenous nations of this province should be treated as such, nations, and if the intention is to use the minerals that exist on their land, then we need to engage them as partners, just as we would when organizing resource relationships with other nations.

There is nothing that could come of this legislation that would justify the long-lasting consequences that it will trigger, this whole thing should be thrown out.