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Our Position There is no such thing as a "minor water" in Canada when it comes to our rights to navigate. If the NWPA excludes “minor waters” then the best paddling, boating, fishing and recreational rivers in this country will be abandoned to industrial development. There is no such thing as a "minor work" if it interferes with navigation on a waterway in Canada. Dams, bridges, causeways and booms are the very things that, by design, interfere with navigability. The current definition of navigable waters under the NWPA “….any body of water which is capable, in its natural state, of being navigated by floating vessels of any description for the purpose of transportation, recreation or commerce...” protects the fundamental public right Canadians have to navigate this country’s rivers. Any weakening of this definition to exclude recreational paddlers is unacceptable and is a direct assault on this country’s heritage. This is a very serious breach of public trust. This is an environmental issue. Because of its ability to trigger environmental assessments the NWPA is one of the pillars of environmental protection for rivers in Canada. The protection granted to waterways under federal fisheries legislation is toothless.isfr_sign.pdf
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Comment by Greg Loftus on February 14, 2009 at 9:35pm - The object is to remove anything that would get in the way of Indusrial development of the waterway. Boats that draw less than 1 mete of water and are 1,5 meters wide would be banned from navigatable waterways. The glitch is that the Minster wants sole descrection to determine what watewrways re navigatable. As it stands now anything in canada that you can basically float a canoe on is a naigatable waterway and protected by the NWPA. He would decide what rivers abnd waterways are navigatable with the FFinance comittee behind closed doors with no public consultation and no right of of appeal. They would no longer require consultations with first nations people about the use of waterways on their lands ( in Vilolation of Supreme court rulings thatv exsit all ready. In a nut shell a mMinster inOttawa would control every water way in canada and we would have no say at all in what ever happened to it, Should he deem your favourite paddle a Navigatable watereway your boat would have to mmt the size requirements which eliminat canoes kayaks skiffs and runaboats personall water craft and smll sailing boats etc, Just in the way off making money of the waterway. The motoe baots of course are banned as well unless they are really big.
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Comment by Jeanette McDermott on February 14, 2009 at 8:27pm - One thing I'm not clear about is why the government wants to block canoeing and kayaking on the rivers. Are the petroleum-belching, gas-guzzling motor boats also being banned? Is this an arbitrary ban, or is navigation being closed to everyone? I'd like to have time to dig into this to the core level, but alas, time eludes me and that luxury is not an option. I'm looking for the short-cut .... the who, what, when, where, why and how in 25 words or less. lol! What's the latest?
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Comment by GuyThaLizard on November 11, 2008 at 10:52pm -
"the bill was dissolved " COOL Greg good work!
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Comment by Greg Loftus on October 30, 2008 at 10:42pm
- Lots of response here and hat is great. the whole concept of the chjange was crazy and we have to make sure it is down with the boots put to it. Cheers Greg Yellowknife bay is freezing fast and only the house boaters are doing the daily drag canoe paddle drag canoe dgrind until the ice is safe enough to walk on.
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