First Nations youth continue fight over Carney’s major projects agenda, summit

By Alessia Passafiume As Canadian politicians were pitching their major projects plans to foreign investors at a first-of-its-kind summit in Toronto, First Nations youth in Ottawa were making a pitch to Canadians on why they should join the fight to stop them. Jeronimo Kataquapit and his cousin Ramon had just returned from a weeks-long journey on the coast of James Bay, a body of water that straddles Quebec and Ontario at the southern tip of the Hudson Bay. Jeronimo called it “hardcore camping,” where he, Ramon and his parents roughed it on the shorelines, spotting polar bears, flocks of geese and caribou along the way. The trip wasn’t for rest and relaxation for the family from Attawapiskat First Nation. It was part of their ongoing efforts to leave physical traces…

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