Accelerated extractivism in the age of tariffs: Impacts on Indigenous peoples

Abstract

As a crisis response to the economic uncertainty associated with American tariffs, Canadian politicians have committed to accelerate development of extractive projects and infrastructure to expand trade with diversified global markets. Across the political spectrum, Canadian legislators are rushing to rewrite laws to fast-track project approvals and codify a newly emergent political consensus around the need for speed in export-oriented extraction. In this short intervention, we point to the need for new community-based research with Indigenous communities to evaluate the impacts of the acceleration of extractive politics in Canada.