Les Premières Nations et les systèmes d’énergie intracontinentaux : un moyen de préserver l’État-nation ?

• Published in: Nuevo mundo mundos nuevos
• Main Author: Jean L. Manore
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French; Portuguese
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2017
• Subjects: First Nations; Quebec; energy; globalisation; sovereignty; scipo; hisphilso; Canada; Premières Nations
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/nuevomundo.71502; https://doaj.org/article/3b3bd4572400454fbd6d1b5ca4d00cc9

This article examines the role that First Nations in Canada may play in preserving the nation-state against the forces of globalization. It focuses on the protests that First Nations in northern Ontario and northern Quebec have raised to hydro-electric development within their territories as a means of preserving their ways of life and the natural environment. These protests, it is argued, have resulted in the Canadian and provincial states agreeing to put constraints on hydro-electric development thereby limiting the ability of global forces to undermine the sovereign control of these resources of the First Nations and of Canada.