Community groups urge stronger federal freshwater protections

The federal government is putting forward a number of proposals that put our clean water and healthy watersheds at risk.
Stronger federal freshwater protections would secure the drinking water, fisheries, tourism, and agriculture built around healthy lakes and rivers, and the ecosystems that sustain them, write Nikki Skuce and Natalija Vojno.

As summer approaches, Canadians throughout the country are getting ready to jump into lakes, paddle rivers, and head out on fishing trips. We are a country of water: we hold roughly one-fifth of the world’s freshwater, home to globally significant populations of cold-water...

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