MEDIA INDIGENA 310

Unmitigated gall / MI 310

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

Oil and gaslighting. They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Guess which one the Canadian government funds way more than the other for First Nations emergencies like floods and fires? Karen Hogan knows the answer: in fact, the Auditor-General dedicated a whole chapter to it in her latest report, much like her predecessor did nine years prior. Since then, it’s been the usual flood of excuses and the burning through of budgets as Canada perpetually reacts after-the-fact to disasters it arguably helped enable through its seemingly unmitigated support for oil and gas extraction.

Joining host/producer Rick Harp to run through the report, the response to it from Ottawa, and how Canada's rhetoric on curbing carbon compares to its actions in exactly the opposite direction are MI regulars Kim TallBear, professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Society, plus Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and the Graduate School of Journalism at UBC.

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LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Feds failed to provide support to First Nations during climate emergencies: Auditor general APTN News

• 'Reactive' Indigenous Services failing to help First Nations manage emergencies, says auditor general CBC News

• Ottawa must be proactive in helping First Nations prepare for natural disasters, AG says Global News

• Hajdu accepts conclusions of AG report on First Nations emergency management TBNewsWatch.com

• Canada backed bid to scale back ‘unabated’ fossil fuels, but pledge never made it into the final COP27 agreement National Observer

• COP27 ends with announcement of historic loss and damage fund UN Environment Program

• Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)

• First Nations International Court of Justice Chiefs of Ontario

• International court completes first stage in case against Canada [1996] Windspeaker

• Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change: April 2009 Anchorage, Alaska

• World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth: April 2010 Cochabamba, Bolivia

• Alaska Native community relocates as climate crisis ravages homes Al Jazeera

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