Lord Elgin Hotel (100 Elgin Street), Ottawa, ON 

Facilitator: Geraldine King, NVision Insight Group Inc.

Opening remarks: Katarina Hartwig, Living Lakes Canada

Opening remarks: Carolyn DuBois, The Gordon Foundation

Moderator: Tony Maas, Forum for Leadership on Water

Panelists:

Paul Jiapizian, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Carla Torchia, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Marlene Doyle, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada

Moderator: Brenda Parlee, Tracking Change, University of Alberta

Panelists:

Shaunna Morgan-Siegers, Indigenous Leadership Initiative

Minister John Parenteau, Fisheries, Manitoba Métis Federation

Caleb Behn, Assembly of First Nations

10:45 a.m.

Descriptions to follow

What can we learn from the CBWM movement south of the border? Hear how CBWM in the US has taken shape. Jeff brings 30 plus years of experience creating federal-level supports and funding models, resulting in program longevity and ensuring CBWM data can feed into local, statewide and national assessments. Jeff can speak to challenges and lessons learned in standardization of protocols to the development of sustainable funding models, among many other topics.

2)   Community-based water monitoring and federal decision-making – Tony Maas, Forum for Leadership on Water

What are the most promising existing and emerging opportunities for CBWM to meaningfully inform decisions under federal laws and policies that impact freshwater? What decisions under what laws and policies? How can CBWM support implementation of proposed updates to federal environmental laws (i.e., Fisheries Act, Navigation Protection Act, Impact Assessment legislation)?

 3)    The water monitoring landscape in Canada – Elizabeth Hendriks, WWF-Canada and Katarina Hartwig, Living Lakes Canada

Across the country, we have some incredible monitoring programs and some not so good programs and everything in between.  Can we better integrate and coordinate? How can we better coordinate for better local monitoring coverage and better local to national integration?  Can we build CBWM momentum by speaking the same language for watershed health comparisons across the country.? Can we build in political buffers with an integrated approach?

4)    Place-based drivers for monitoring in the Mackenzie River Basin – Leon Andrew, Sahtu Secretariat Incorporated

Learn about diverse community concerns driving water and climate monitoring in the Mackenzie River Basin. How are different indicators selected? How does monitoring relate to unique water management and governance systems in the Basin?

5)    Community-based monitoring needs in Alberta. Climate monitoring through an Indigenous lens – Cleo Reese, Keepers of the Athabasca / Athabasca Watershed Council and Sharlene Alook, Treaty 8 First Nations-AB

6)    Knowledge Sharing and community-based monitoring – Dr. Dawn Martin Hill and Rod Whitlow, Global Water Futures, McMaster University

Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing is relatively new to academic discourse but ancient in practice. Our project Indigenous Water quality tools implements applies IK and TEK in ecosystem and human health to develop tools such as digital storytelling, place name heritage mapping of waterways, and co-created sensors with real time apps in the Mohawk language while building capacity in Indigenous communities to manage, govern and sustain water security.

7)     Use of IK/TK in Environmental Impact Assessments – Adam Chamberlain, Gowling WLG

What changes should we expect to see in the use of IK/TK with the new federal environmental impact assessment regime? What can southern Canada learn from best practices in the territorial north?

Meredith Brown, Ottawa Riverkeeper

Introduction: Joanne Nelson, Decolonizing Water Project, University of British Columbia

Facilitator: Gabrielle Parent-Doliner, Swim Drink Fish

Introduction: Alexis Kanu, Lake Winnipeg Foundation

Facilitator: Simon Mitchell, WWF-Canada

Report back from concurrent sessions: Geraldine King, Facilitator

Presentation: Dr. Alice Cohen, Acadia University

Metropolitain Brasserie (700 Sussex Drive, Ottawa)

Opening remarks: Sherry Campbell, President and CEO, The Gordon Foundation

Lord Elgin Hotel (100 Elgin Street), Ottawa, ON

 2.     Effective Monitoring – Alexis Kanu, Lake Winnipeg Foundation

 3.     Regional & National Collaboration – Graeme S. Robertson, ACAP St. John

 4.     Data Management – Catherine Paquette and Simon Mitchell, WWF Canada

 5.     Mobilizing Knowledge for Action – Mike Low, Dehcho First Nation

6.     Sustainable Funding – Jana Kotaska, Coastal Stewardship Network, Coastal First Nations – Great Bear Initiative

Introduction: Emma Wattie, Atlantic Water Network

Facilitator: Dr. Alice Cohen, Acadia University

Introduction: Carolyn DuBois, The Gordon Foundation

Facilitator: Heather Crochetiere, WWF-Canada