Date:
Wednesday, January 9, 2002 - 5:00pm
When government policies destroy the environment, have they abrogated the right of citizens? This paper looks at this question from the perspective of Indigenous Peoples who have an explicit constitutional right to fish. Yet both the federal and provincial governments have accelerated the decline of Pacific Coast fisheries with policies that encourage overfishing, bad logging practices and now risk total collapse of the stocks with approval of fish farms up and down the coast...Read this educational report