ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Some academics claim that legal personhood is not effective at whole-river protection unless it (1) grants the local Indigenous community the ability to govern and manage the river, and (2) vests private ownership of the river, which includes the riverbed and the water, to the river as a legal person while others view colonial legal personality of the river as connecting colonial and Indigenous le. [...] The MOU is explicitly grounded in W̱SÁNEĆ laws and legal principles, and recognizes W̱SÁNEĆ self-governing authority.156 Both the WLC and the District of Saanich recognize the MOU as a living document and a “starting point that reflects generations of continuing work.”157 The parties acknowledge that implementation of the MOU will require the development of protocol agreements, committees and work. [...] Whole-of-River Protection for the Fraser River: A Scan of Legal Potential Page 34 of 48 challenges presented to the watershed and provide a forum for discussion and solution-building to address these challenges.183 Governance The basic governance structure for the IJC is to treat the two governments as equal parties with the same rights and obligations to one another.184 The IJC was created by the. [...] Background The MRBT was signed in 1997 between the governments of Canada, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon.192 The Mackenzie River Basin spans over all these provinces and territories, covering approximately 1.8 million square kilometres, and its watercourses are vital to the way of life of the people who live there.193 The purpose of the agreement is to “establi. [...] The objective of the bilateral agreements is to increase cooperation and management of the shared water resources to sustain the “ecological integrity” of the Basin.