Governing Territorial Food Systems: Legal Obstacles and Opportunities

Conference Recordings



Indigenous TerritorialIties and Food System Governance: Disruptions and Reclamations

May 13, 2021

Speakers

Hannah Askew (Sierra Club BC)

Rebeca Macias Gimenez (University of Victoria, Faculty of Law)

Alan Hanna (University of Victoria, Faculty of Law)

Darcy Lindberg (University of Alberta, Faculty of Law)


McCarthy Tétrault Updates in Canadian Food Law and Policy

 
 

Sponsored by McCarthy Tétrault

May 12, 2021

Speakers

Indigenous Law, Angela D’Elia Decembrini (First Peoples Law)

UN Food Systems Summit, Michael Fakhri (University of Oregon, Faculty of Law)

Trade Law, Carmen Francis (McCarthy Tétrault)

Advertising, Labeling and Marketing, Glenford Jameson (G. S. Jameson & Company)

Animal Law, Selina Lee-Andersen (McCarthy Tétrault)

Worker’s Rights, Anelyse Weiler (University of Victoria)

Temporary Exemptions to Interprovincial Trade, Ronald Doering (Gowling WLG)

Canadian Food Policy Advisory Council, Catherine Mah (Dalhousie University)

Intellectual Property Law, Marsha Cadogan (MSC Intellectual Property and Technology Law)

Moderator

Jessica Cytryn (McCarthy Tétrault)


Supernatural Oceans: A Worldview for Enlightened Oceans Governance and Territorial Food Systems

Welcome and Keynote

May 12, 2021

Welcome with Dean Janine Benedet

and opening keynote with

Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson Gidahl-Guudsdllyaay


BC Food System Governance

May 14, 2021

Speakers

Deborah Curran (University of Victoria, Faculty of Law)

Brenda Gaertner (Mandell Pinder LLP)

Ione Smith (Upland Agricultural Consulting)

Moderator

Linda Nowlan (University of British Columbia)


Emerging Voices in Food Law and Policy

 

For more on the Gowling WLG - Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law, including this year’s winner - Julia Witmer - see …

 

Sponsored by Gowling WLG

May 14, 2021

Speakers

"Clearly a subjective determination": Interpretations of Undue Suffering at the Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal (2000-2019), Andrew Stobo Sniderman (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law)

A Roof Over Our Stomachs: The Right to Housing in Canada & Its Implications for Food Rights, Tasha Stansbury (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law)

Mexican Salsa and Mexican Farm Workers: How International Agricultural Development Marginalizes Farm Labour, Celia Mary White (Osgoode Hall)

How Law Shapes Food Sovereignty in Urban Canada, Julia Witmer (Dalhousie University, Faculty of Law)

Moderator

Stepan Wood (University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law)

Judges

Bita Amani (Queen’s University, Faculty of Law)

Patricia Farnese (University of Saskatchewan, College of Law)

John Leckie (Gowling WLG)

Jacob Shelley (Western University, Faculty of Law)

Mark Youden (Gowling WLG)


Discussion: Is the Crown at War With Us?

film screening and Discussion

Is the Crown at War With Us?

by Alanis Obomsawin

May 14, 2021

In this feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin, it's the summer of 2000 and the country watches in disbelief as federal fisheries wage war on the Mi'kmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Casting her cinematic and intellectual nets into history to provide context, Obomsawin delineates the complex roots of the conflict with passion and clarity, building a persuasive defence of the Mi'kmaq position.

Discussion

3:00pm - 4:00pm PST

with Kate Gunn (First Peoples Law) and Sherry Pictou (University of Dalhousie)

Moderated by Patricia Galvao Ferreira


The Impacts of Covid-19

May 15, 2021

Speakers

Jennifer Clapp (University of Waterloo)

Kathleen Sullivan (Food and Beverage Canada)

Paul Taylor (Foodshare Toronto)

Tammy Switucha (Canadian Food Inspection Agency)

Moderator

Sarah Berger Richardson (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law)


Governing Territorial Food Systems in a World of Complexity

May 15, 2021

Speakers

Lauren Martin (Canadian Cattlemen’s Association)

Dawn Morrison (Indigenous Food Systems Network)

Peter Phillips (University of Saskatchewan)

Melana Roberts (Food Secure Canada)

Moderators

Don Buckingham

Nadia Lambek


The conference was held on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation. We are grateful to be guests on this land.