Canada supported recommendations to respect and protect FPIC and Indigenous rights in its previous UPR.87 In the context of Line 5, Canada has failed to respect and protect the participation and FPIC rights of affected Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the U. [...] It would impact animal and plant species on which many of us rely for subsistence by polluting the water and shorelines of the Great Lakes and surrounding wetlands and rivers,105 including Ramsar Sites like the Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs.106 A spill in the Straits would wipe out fisheries that have provided a food source and lain at the heart of tribal way of life for millennia, and that still. [...] Treaty Bodies expressed in a joint statement, the adverse impacts of climate change “threaten, among others, the right to life, the right to adequate food, the right to adequate housing, the right to health, the right to water and cultural rights.”145 64. [...] The Line 5 dual pipelines run through our treaty-ceded territory and waters and pose serious threats to the exercise of our reserved treaty rights, our ability to preserve cultural resources, our cultural and religious interests in the Great Lakes, our economy, and the health and welfare of our tribal citizens. [...] CIEL seeks a world where the law reflects the interconnection between humans and the environment, respects the limits of the planet, protects the dignity and equality of each person, and encourages all of earth’s inhabitants to live in balance with each other.
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