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Environment committee Yes. That's a difficult question for me to answer. I think I'm stumped.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee No, I'm always a hopeful person. That's just my personality. I think the bill is very pointed. It's obviously just a bill. It's a page long. It's not extremely detailed, but it speaks to all of the issues that are important to me in terms of the collection of data, the intersections of race and socio-economic status.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee No. I haven't looked necessarily at the federal, but my work has mostly focused on the provincial and the Department of Environment. With Africville it was the City of Halifax, of course, which created that problem. It was both a problem of gentrification or urban renewal as well as environmental racism.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee No, that's a bit incorrect.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee Some indigenous communities have asked for indigenous-led environmental assessments because they felt excluded. There's this term, as you know, “participatory democracy”. It's not simply about including people in decision-making, but also the way you do that in culturally specific ways.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee Is that for Dr. Waldron?
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee This is another form of systemic and environmental racism. We have racism in housing. We have racism in health. We have racism in education. We have racism in every single social structure in this country and in every country around the world. I'm not sure if I remember your question.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee Yes. As Lenore said, you can't address a problem unless you know what the problem is. The collection of race-based data for this bill, the collection of race-based data by race and socio-economic status, environmental risk, and also health outcomes is very crucial. We know what's happening.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee I have no idea where it should go, but I do know that it shouldn't go in an indigenous community again, right? That's what, I guess, environmental assessments are for, right? Environmental assessments are about determining where particular projects go. Thus far, environmental assessments have not been equitable.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee The spacial patterning of industries primarily in indigenous and other racialized communities is an outcome of systemic racism that has been inscribed within environmental policy and is not dissimilar from any other policy, whether you're talking about health policy, policy in education, or immigration policy.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee We are not the individuals you choose to protect over your group. That's how—
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee There's a burgeoning climate justice movement in Canada and around the world. That movement demonstrates quite clearly that environmental racism and the placement of polluting industries in certain communities is inextricably linked to climate change in several ways. The kinds of emissions that come out of polluting industries actually have implications for climate change.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron
Environment committee Dear members of the environment and sustainability committee, I would like to thank you for inviting me to speak to Bill C-230, and environmental racism more broadly. I would like to begin by addressing arguments—persistent arguments over the years—that since race is not a biological fact, systemic racism could not possibly exist in Canada.
April 14th, 2021Committee meeting
Dr. Ingrid Waldron