By Steven Nitah, Indigenous Leadership Initiative and CRP Leadership Circle and Mary-Kate Craig, PhD Candidate, Anwaatin Inc.
Canada has an incredibly valuable asset in its natural systems. In the face of climate change, this is an asset whose value the world can now recognize. Previously, Canadian society tended to look at these natural systems as resources that were only valuable when cut down, used and processed in some way. Now, in the face of the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, Canada and the world are catching up to Indigenous peoples who have always known and advocated for the importance and interconnectedness of natural systems.
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