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TRIPPERS BEAT BLACKFLIES BUT GET SWARMED BY MEDIA


Eight days into a trip on eastern Mani- toba’s remote Bloodvein River in late May, Paul Lawler had to wolf down his beef-on- a-pita to shake hands with the province’s premier. Te carpenter and seven of his friends


were on their annual canoe trip to get away from it all when a fleet of motorboats bearing 40-odd politicians and media types interrupted their lunch. Tey included Premier Greg Selinger, two


Manitoba cabinet ministers, UNESCO em- ployees, First Nations, environmentalists and philanthropists, plus reporters from Vanity Fair, CBC, CTV and other outlets. Te group was touring a region of boreal


forest the size of Denmark called Pimachio- win Aki (“Te Land that Gives Life”), which Manitoba, Ontario and five First Nations are proposing be designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site—a status shared by the Taj Mahal and the Great Barrier Reef. Te David Suzuki Foundation calls it the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. Although almost unheard of in the rest


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of Canada and the U.S., the region’s fate has become a political hot button in Mani- toba. Premier Selinger plans to route Man- itoba Hydro’s proposed Bipole III trans- mission line through western Manitoba to avoid the region. Opposition leader, Hugh McFadyen, is campaigning on a promise to take the shorter, cheaper route down the east side of Lake Winnipeg, transecting Pimachiowin Aki. It took the delegation’s chance encoun-


ter with a group of “grubby canoeists,” as theWinnipeg Free Press called them, for the story to make the pages of the Toronto Star. “It was a gold mine for them to actually


have people there that were just enjoying the river,” said Lawler. Te UNESCO bid’s proponents cite ecotourism as a spinoff, and here was living proof. “We felt more like animals at the zoo


that day than anything,” said Lawler. But he was glad to see politicians in the wilder- ness, even though it’s probably McFadyen, not the Premier that needs to visit. “Te people who make the decisions


need to go to these areas before they de- cide to crisscross them with power lines or dam them up,” said Lawler. Being only a day from the end of their


trip, Lawler didn’t mind the fanfare. “A couple of guys took exception to being called grubby canoeists, but that’s what we were.” —Tim Shuff


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