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• Title: No Taps, No Toilets: First Nations and the Constitutional Right to Water in Canada.
• Author : McGill Law Journal
• Release Date : January 01, 2011
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 384 KB

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In 1977, the Canadian federal government promised to provide reserves with water and sanitation services comparable to similarly situated non-Aboriginal communities. Despite some progress, thousands of First Nations people, living on reserves across Canada, still lack access to running water or flush toilets. The adverse health effects associated with inadequate water infrastructure include elevated rates of communicable diseases such as influenza, whooping cough (pertussis), shigellosis, and impetigo. Do First Nations have an enforceable constitutional right to water? This article suggests that they do, based on the right to life, liberty, and security of the person under section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; the right to equality under section 15 of the Charter; and governments' obligation to provide "essential public services of reasonable quality to all Canadians" under section 36 of the Constitution Act, 1982. The legal arguments available pursuant to these constitutional provisions are buttressed by Canada's obligations pursuant to international human rights law. En 1977, le gouvernement federal canadien a promis de fournir des reserves qui auraient un acces a l'eau et des installations sanitaires comparables aux communautes non autochtones. En depit de certains progres, des milliers de membres des Premieres Nations vivant dans des reserves a travers le Canada n'ont toujours pas acces a l'eau courante. Les effets negatifs sur la sante, associes a une infrastructure liee a l'eau inadequate, inclus des taux plus eleves de maladies contagieuses comme l'influenza, la coqueluche, la shigellose et l'impetigo. Les Premieres Nations ont-elles un droit constitutionnel a l'eau ? Cet article suggere que oui, en se basant sur le droit a la vie, a la liberte et a la securite de sa personne sous l'article 7 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes ; le droit a l'egalite sous l'article 15 de la Charte ; et l'obligation du gouvernement de fournir a tous les Canadiens, a un niveau de qualite acceptable, les services publics essentiels sous l'article 36 de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982. Les arguments legaux disponibles suivant ces dispositions constitutionnelles sont etayes par les obligations du Canada en droit international des droits de l'homme.

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