Lake Winnipeg has problems with algae, E. coli bacteria and invasive species, as swell as a decline in fish, wildlife and vegetation, the lawsuit claims.Photo by Postmedia/File

Make Lake Winnipeg a legal 'person' with Constitutional rights, Manitoba chiefs ask court

The lawsuit says Lake Winnipeg, one of the world's largest, has a spirit and is alive but is suffering

by · National Post

WINNIPEG — A court has been asked to declare Lake Winnipeg a person with constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of person in a case that may go further than any other in trying to establish the rights of nature in Canada.

“It really is that simple,” said Grand Chief Jerry Daniels of the Manitoba Southern Chiefs’ Organization, which filed the suit Thursday in Court of King’s Bench in Winnipeg.