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Pellerin: Give the Ottawa River legal personhood
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Pellerin: Give the Ottawa River legal personhood
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This river in Canada is now a ‘legal person’ Jillian Kestler-D Amours © The Magpie River, a 300km waterway in the Cote Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec, was r. The Magpie River, a 300km waterway in the Cote Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec, was recognised as a legal person in February [Courtesy Uapukun Metokosho/International Observatory on the Rights of Nature]
Montreal, Canada – Jean-Charles Pietacho says the belief that nature is a living thing that must be respected, has been at the heart of the Innu people’s way of life for generations.
But now, that idea has been applied in a new way as the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit in February recognised the Magpie River, a 300km (186 miles) waterway in the Cote Nord region of the Canadian province of Quebec, as a “legal person”.
This river in Canada is now a legal person | Environment News
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‘Strictly UN Optics’: Quebec’s Magpie River Granted Personhood Status
A remote river in eastern Quebec has been granted personhood status, making it the first time in Canada that an entity of nature purportedly has the same legal rights as a human being.
Bestowing legal personhood on the Magpie River, which spills into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is being lauded by the groups involved, but one expert describes the move as “strictly UN optics.”
Bill Gallagher, a lawyer and strategist who’s authored two books on the intersection of resource interests and indigenous rights in Canada, says granting personhood status to a river has more to do with aligning with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) than with empowering indigenous people economically.