One of Canada's and Alberta's most notorious human rights failings on the world stage.

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The documentary "Our Land, My People: The Struggle of the Lubicon Cree" follows Lubicon councillors, elders, and band members as they share with Amnesty International the impact of resource exploitation on their way of life and traditional economy. Over $14B has been extracted from Lubicon land; the Lubicon have seen not a penny. Since the late 1970s, the Lubicon Cree, an Indigenous people in Alberta, Canada, have seen the land on which they depend transformed by logging and large-scale oil and gas extraction. Despite a 1990 decision by the United Nations Human Rights Committee that the human rights of the Lubicon Cree are being violated by the impact of natural resource extraction, the Canadian authorities have failed to bring about a fair resolution of the long standing land dispute. "The many long decades of failure to respect the human rights of the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation in Northern Alberta have become one of Canada's and Alberta's most notorious human rights failings on the world stage," said Alex Neve, secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada. Amnesty International has launched a global initiative in support of the Lubicon Cree. Link to Amnesty International Campaign: www.amnesty.ca/amnestynews/upload/AMR200062008.pdf This short film (30 minutes) follows Lubicon councillors, elders, and band members as they share with Amnesty International the impact of resource exploitation on their environment, way of life, and traditional economy.

This Canadian doc looks at the stories of several individuals and families who are struggling with debt

Synopsis

DEBT TRAP examines why the average Canadian is sinking deeper in hock, by looking at the stories of several individuals and families who are struggling with debt. Sobering, ironic, and enlightening, the film probes the reasons why more and more of us are struggling to keep afloat, and what needs to be done to turn this trend around.