The Forest in Québec Politics: Environmental Racism and the Religion of Capitalism

With Professor Nicolas Renaud

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.

About the speakers:

- 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.