How to achieve balance between environmental stewardship and the resource economy

In Canada, whether or not we like to acknowledge it, this balance rests between resource extractive companies and Indigenous communities. There is no way around this discourse.

Only after society, at its various levels, has had this uncomfortable conversation will it start to find its way back to ensuring that our future generations will inherit clean land, air, and water, writes Sen. Mary Jane McCallum.Photograph courtesy of Unsplash

Opinion

BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM

June 16, 2021

Individuals, corporations, and governments all want an easy solution to finding a balance between responsible environmental stewardship and a prosperous resource economy. These are two mutually exclusive concepts—or are they? In Canada, we never give up hope. We know it is a long road back to jus...

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