Climate change is here
and
Canada rolls up its sleeves.
Lawyers present their case.
Judges listen.
From the thawing permafrost
in the Northwest Territories
to the diminishing herds
of the Eastern Migratory Caribou,
the fate of our planet
rests in the question:
Is managing carbon
a federal jurisdiction
or a provincial one?
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
