End times or turning point? It’s our choice – David Suzuki Foundation
June 19, 2025
It’s never been more important for people in Canada to focus on protecting and restoring life-sustaining nature and advancing social justice. But our governments are instead fuelling accelerated industrial expansion and trampling Indigenous rights. It’s dismaying.
Governments throughout Canada are showing a renewed zeal for extraction, often accompanied by a failure to uphold Indigenous rights. It’s sometimes opportunistically framed as a response to the current unstable geopolitical situation brought about by chaotic United States politics and policies.
British Columbia just passed Bill 15 to fast-track infrastructure projects. First Nations argued it “gives B.C. leeway to steamroll First Nations rights and environmental protections.”
Alberta has discarded even the pretense of upholding a responsibility to steward wildlife. It’s proposing to let U.S.–based Weyerhaeuser clearcut the last winter range forests of two highly imperilled mountain caribou populations. The plan would also approve increased oil and gas development in their habitats.
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