Canada’s electricity buildout needs Indigenous leadership

Modernizing Canada’s electricity system to meet the demands of our collective future must become a turning point for economic reconciliation.

As we flip the switch on next-generation electricity infrastructure, we must also flip the script on the role Nations play in building it, write Kwatuuma Cole Sayers and Blake Shaffer. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY KWATUUMA COLE SAYERS, BLAKE SHAFFER

March 18, 2026

massive, decades-long construction projects spanning some 160,000 kilometres of forest, river, and mountain. These projects will not be built in nameless places. They will be built across Indigenous homelands. Every new transmission line in Canada will cross Indigenous terri...

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