Dam Right - Cree & Inuit Summit

November, 1973. In the frozen heart of Northern Quebec, a nation within a nation is fighting for its future. For decades, the Cree and Inuit of James Bay have lived off rivers and caribou herds their ancestors have known for centuries. Now, bulldozers and blueprints threaten to bury that history under billions of gallons of water, all in the name of "progress." But these communities aren't going down without a fight. Their legal challenge has already done what no one thought possible, it's stopped Premier Robert Bourassa's massive hydroelectric project dead in its tracks, dragging Quebec's boldest economic gamble into the courtroom and the headlines. This committee will run into that exact moment: a province in crisis, a legal system under pressure, and Indigenous leadership refusing to be an afterthought in decisions about their own land. Delegates will step into the shoes of Cree and Inuit leaders fighting to force a renegotiation of what sovereignty actually means in modern Canada, alongside provincial and federal officials searching for a path forward that doesn't repeat the colonial playbook seen at Churchill Falls and the Columbia River. Together, delegates will wrestle with whether energy independence and Indigenous self-determination have to be opposites, or whether a different future is possible. Debate will unfold across two urgent fronts. Environmentalism will confront the ecological stakes head-on: shattered caribou migration routes, drowned boreal forest, and a mercury contamination crisis quietly poisoning entire communities through the fish they've relied on for generations. Globalism will dig into the economics of power, literally, tracing how energy exports, transboundary deals, and corporate interests have historically been built on land taken without consent. Running on light crisis mechanics, this committee will move fast, demanding sharp argumentation and sharper policy from every delegate at the table. At its core, this is a fight over land, law, and legacy, one that will ask delegates to reckon with a history that's far from finished.