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“I plan to use the research funds to help mentor more students who can go on and help make the world a more inclusive place with skills that right now aren't really easy to come by.” — Dr. Jesse Popp

“We have to keep pushing. If we don’t push, nothing will be done.” —Marshall Nadjiwon

“Indigenous knowledge has to be front and centre when it comes to those solutions.” —Minister Catherine McKenna

“You cannot sit there and tell me that over the next 550 years nothing is going to leach out of this mound and get in and make its way into the surrounding environment and waterways.” —Kebaowek First Nation Councillor Justin Roy

“We are working with Indigenous nations on a long-term solution to the tailings ponds. The idea that we can simply continue to park large quantities of toxic water in these giant ponds is not a long-term solution to this.” — Environment and Climate Change Canada Minister Stephen Guilbeault

"This is the primary piece of legislation that governs some of the biggest conflicts between Indigenous people and the State, which is around resource development and extraction development.” — Research Director Shiri Pasternak, Yellowhead Institute

“We must always be vigilant in…ensuring that our peoples’ rights are always observed in any planning, any development that is proposed within that territory.” — Frank Mckay, chair and CEO for Windigo First Nations Council

Fort Chipewyan Métis “at the mercy of the decisions of Alberta’s policy makers who are willing to sacrifice northeastern Alberta.” —Carmen Wells

“…for First Nations, food is not just about nutrition, but more importantly about culture, about the sacredness of food…” — Victor Odele, senior research and policy analyst for environmental health at the Assembly of First Nations