1. Submit to the EngageMB.ca consultation
The Manitoba consultation portal accepts written submissions from any member of the public — Manitoban or otherwise — until midnight on June 2, 2026. A short submission in your own words is better than no submission, and consultation officials track both volume and substance. The portal has a comment box (5,000-word limit) and, depending on the page, an attachment field.
If you'd like a starting point, the formal submission I filed is available below. You are welcome to draw on its framing or arguments in your own submission, in your own words.
Submit to EngageMB.ca Download my submission (PDF)
2. Write to your federal MP, provincial MLA, or the principals
A short letter to your representative carries weight in any consultation, especially one whose outcome will be set by a federal–provincial agreement. The most useful letters are short — a paragraph stating your position, a paragraph on why it matters to you, a closing line.
The principals whose offices are most directly involved in the Seal River file:
- The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada — via pm.gc.ca
- The Honourable Wab Kinew, Premier of Manitoba — via gov.mb.ca/premier
- The Honourable Julie Dabrusin, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- The Honourable Mike Moyes, Manitoba Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- The Honourable Rebecca Chartrand, federal Minister of Northern Affairs and MP for Churchill–Keewatinook Aski
Find your MP at ourcommons.ca/Members. Find your MLA at gov.mb.ca/legislature/members.
3. Share the framework
The argument for whole-watershed protection — and for the parallel public designation of Manitoba's working mineral districts — is one the public conversation has not yet fully absorbed. The most useful thing you can do is send this site to one person who would benefit from it: one paddler, one mining engineer, one elected official, one journalist, one Manitoba voter.
Share mindfulmining.earth. Share the submission PDF. Share the Substack series. The framework is built to travel.