Northern British Columbian residents participated in the 2023 Kawaskimhon Moot, a court competition that has participants from nearly every law school in Canada.
The competition took place earlier this month and was hosted by the University of Victoria Faculty of Law.
Kawaskimhon is a nêhiyawêwin (Cree language) word that means “speaking with knowledge.”
This moot is unique in that it centers Indigenous legal orders alongside federal, provincial, and international laws.
It is consensus-based and non-adversarial and this year focused on the legal issues surrounding the Coastal GasLink

