OTTAWA — On Nov. 23, ministers, senators and NGO representatives gathered… to watch and discuss a film that interweaves the deforestation of the boreal forest and colonial policy. The event was hosted by the film’s producer, Sen. Michelle Audette, and director Michael Zelniker, while current and former ministers of Crown-Indigenous relations, Marc Miller and Carolyn Bennett, sat in the front rows. …Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson wasn’t in attendance for the film screening, which gave a passionate defence of the boreal forest through the stories of First Nations Elders. The boreal is an essential carbon sink, yet the Canadian logging industry harvests 80 per cent of its lumber from old-growth boreal trees, according to the film. …Janet Sumner, of the Wildlands League said the film captures the parallel between climate collapse and colonization.