The Forest in Québec Politics

Join Nicolas Renaud and Dr. Catherine Richardson as they discuss the language, attitudes, and strategies of the Québec Government’s communications over the past few years around the refusal to protect the habitat of woodland caribou, and the upcoming new plan for forestry management. In contrast, looking at principles of listening and responsibility in traditional Indigenous governance helps us exposing the predictable failing of colonial politics for preserving ecosystems. While the Québec State has enforced secularism in recent years, it is however not guided by reason and science, but by a highly religious belief: the religion of capitalism.   

Part of the Good Medicine Talks series, sponsored by the Concordia Chair in Indigenous Healing Knowledges.

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Nicolas Renaud

Nicolas Renaud is an Assistant Professor in First Peoples Studies at Concordia University, where his research and teaching focus on Indigenous ecologies, Iroquoian cultures, wampum belts, and the relationship between Québec society and Indigenous peoples. He is also a visual artist and filmmaker, making installations, experimental films, and documentaries since the 1990s. The film Brave New River (La Nouvelle Rupert) earned him the Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award at Hot Docs 2013 in Toronto. He is of mixed Québécois and Indigenous heritage and is a member of the Huron-Wendat First Nation of Wendake.

Dr. Cathy Richardson

Cathy Richardson is Metis with Gwich’in and Cree ancestry.  She is the Director of First Peoples Students, the Assistant Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the CURC in Indigenous Healing Knowledges.