CLE Online

Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)

Teresa Sheward — Program Lawyer, CLEBC, Vancouver
Oliver M. Brandes — Co-Director, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Policy, POLIS Project; Centre for Global Studies, UVic, Victoria
Deborah L. Curran — Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, UVic, Victoria

Indigenous Water Relationships (9:10 – 10:20)

• Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs Aks Ayookxw Water Policy

Tara Marsden/Naxginkw — Wilp Sustainability Director, Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs; Principal, Hlimoo Sustainability Solutions, Kitwanga

• Implications of claim to submerged lands in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada (Attorney General)    

Julian Riddell — Woodward & Company Lawyers LLP, Victoria

BREAK (10:20 – 10:30)

Addressing Water Harms (10:30 – 12:00)

• Thomas and Saik'uz First Nation v. Rio Tinto Alcan—tort claims grounded in the Aboriginal right to fish, and Crown responsibility

Melinda J. Skeels — Ratcliff LLP, North Vancouver

• Esk'etemc Specific Claim

Stanley H. Ashcroft — Ashcroft & Company, West Vancouver

Watersheds as Health Systems (12:00 – 12:30)

Dr. Shannon Waters — Deputy Provincial Health Officer, Planetary and Water Health, Office of the Provincial Health Officer, Victoria 

LUNCH (12:30 – 1:15)

Water Allocation (1:15 – 3:00)

• FITFIR, water scarcity, and water sustainability plans
• groundwater
• water quality and objectives
• Indigenous interests and rights
• watershed-specific innovation

Oliver M. Brandes — Co-Director, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and
Public Policy, POLIS Project; Centre for Global Studies, UVic, Victoria
Deborah L. Curran — Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, UVic, Victoria
Clayton Leonard — JFK Law LLP, Victoria
Rosalie C.N. Yazzie — Nesika Law Corporation, Westbank

BREAK (3:00 – 3:15)

Daylighting Legal Issues Roundtable (3:15 – 4:00)

• legal scope of water
• wildfire
• beneficial use
• changing water licenses (allocation)

Oliver M. Brandes — Co-Director, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Policy, POLIS Project; Centre for Global Studies, UVic, Victoria
Deborah L. Curran — Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, UVic, Victoria
Clayton Leonard — JFK Law LLP, Victoria
Julian Riddell — Woodward & Company Lawyers LLP, Victoria
Dr. Shannon Waters — Deputy Provincial Health Officer, Planetary and Water Health, Office of the Provincial Health Officer, Victoria 
Rosalie C.N. Yazzie — Nesika Law Corporation, Westbank

Closing Comments (4:00 – 4:05)

Oliver M. Brandes — Co-Director, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Policy, POLIS Project; Centre for Global Studies, UVic, Victoria
Deborah L. Curran — Professor, Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Studies, Executive Director, Environmental Law Centre, UVic, Victoria