Protecting Nature in an Era of Uncertainty
[Ottawa – Mary 26, 2026] Nature occupies a distinctive and unusually resilient place in the Canadian imagination. In a period marked by heightened national anxiety, geopolitical uncertainty, sovereignty concerns, and deepening polarization, attachment to nature remains one of the few genuinely cross-cutting sources of Canadian identity. Canadians continue to see nature, wilderness, oceans, and national parks not simply as environmental assets, but as defining symbols of the country itself. [...]