Representatives of the Council of Canadians, Eau Secours, the Assembly of First Nations, the Chiefs of Ontario, CUPE, Amnesty International, the Sierra Club of Canada, the Polaris Institute, and the University of Ottawa are meeting now to discuss how to further the recently adopted United Nations resolution on the right to water and sanitation in Canada.
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow and Blue Planet Project organizer updated those assembled today on the historic vote at the UN, which took place on July 28. While 122 countries supported the resolution, Canada was one of the 41 countries that abstained.
We are now moving to an update on First Nations drinking water from the AFN and the Chiefs of Ontario.
More to come.
