Dissent: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference Department of English Graduate Student Conference Dalhousie University Halifax, N.S. On 11 December 11th 2012, Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario declared a hunger strike to critique the federal government’s abuses of treaty rights and First Nations communities, and to draw attention to the detrimental and incalculable effects of Bill C-45 on Canada’s rivers and lakes. Across the country ...