Boisbouscache

synopsis

The TNO (Unorganized Territory) Lac-Boisbouscache is a 150 square kilometer public forest located between Rivière-du-Loup and Rimouski in the Lower St. Lawrence region of Quebec, Canada. This ancestral territory of the Maliseet-de-Viger First Nation is today a common good since, as the government proclaims, the public forest belongs to all Quebecers. Through the eyes of forest residents and users, the film paints a portrait of a territory that has long been coveted by private groups with diverse interests. Boisbouscache is a story of dispossession based on the commercial uses in force today combined with the absence of any political will.