Event date: April 19, 2022
Please buy a $10 ticket to attend Charity Week’s featured guest speaker, Alana Robert, in support of True North Aid. Event is happening on Zoom on April 19th 2022, from 7:30-8:30 pm.
Click Purchase Indigenous Legal Rights Speaker Ticket to purchase tickets.
Alana Robert is a human rights activist, lawyer and member of the Indigenous community, who will be speaking about her McCarthy Tetrault’s team’s successful class action lawsuit fighting for cleaner drinking water for Indigenous communities in Canada and for compensation for individuals enduring exposure to unclean water.
Read her bios here:
https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/people/alana-robert
https://indspire.ca/laureate/alana-robert/
This lawsuit, the first of its kind heard together by the federal & Manitoba courts won Indigenous persons an 8 billion dollar settlement from the federal government promising much needed improvement of water infrastructure in certain communities as well as compensation fir some who have endured decades of inadequate water management in reserves through Canada.
Read more about the settlement here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/world/canada/indigenous-water-lawsuit.html