"The Water Sustainability Act is flexible and offers an opportunity for collaboration and re-framing relationships between water users and water. Flexibility, though comes with the lack of clear rules that can be a challenging obstacle for bureaucrats to overcome.”
"It’s our responsibility to protect and sustain our water."
“Whiskey is for drinking, but water shouldn’t have to be for fighting over.”
(Lee’s revision of a well-known quote about whiskey and water)
"Water management should be treated as a family matter. It is a good thing that representatives of our extended family are all in the room."
"We are in this together in every sense of the word. Now is a wonderful opportunity to reach out and go back to that place we enjoyed such a long time ago when we were truly and genuinely friends and neighbours. If we can bring all the knowledge here together with the traditional and ecological knowledge of the Syilx people, we’re going to prevail."