It’s kind of like a giant poker game.
Before the U.S. and Canadian governments can sit down to renegotiate the Columbia River Treaty in the coming years, they’ll have to do multi-faceted preparations with a variety of different provincial, regional, federal and First Nations groups, juggling conflicting priorities and taking stock of who’s holding what cards.
And it could go a whole variety of ways, especially now that the U.S. has elected Donald Trump.
“There is no road map for this process,” Nelson cultural ambassador Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, author of A River Captured: The Columbia River and Catastrophic Change, told the Star.
“It could go on for years and years.”
At its most basic, the CRT is an agreement between countries in which the U.S. compensates Canada for the privilege of damming the river north of the border to provide flood control in the …
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