Whilst I'm aware that in South America and in Canada the cries mostly come from the indigenous peoples who haven't lost that awareness of our deep dependence on nature—without nature none of this exists—so they still have their priorities in that way, what we've done in Europe is seen how those principles are actually applicable everywhere. The whole environmental crisis that we have is a product of the way we have structured our economy. It's legal to have an economy based on infinite growth because nature has no rights. Nature is objects, property and resources in law. This has nothing to do with indigenous peoples. This is applicable in our modern system of law worldwide.
I do believe that the Canadian government, by making a stand for supporting the rights of nature nationally, and then shifting the whole basis of our society towards a regenerative society, would be making a massive leap forward in leadership for the whole world.
Also, I feel that by protecting individual ecosystems in that way, it's a good start. However, it won't really realize its full potential if the national legislation works against it, because everything that happens around these rivers, the very actions that are destroying nature, are in effect legal. They're part of the way that our economy operates. If we can use the rights of nature to help us reorient our economies towards a regenerative society, I feel then it will be much more robust.