Water protection law in Canada changes dramatically after the federal government's omnibus bills strip safeguards from the country's rivers and lakes, cutting protected waterways from roughly 2.5 million lakes and rivers down to 62 rivers and 97 lakes. Filmmaker Morningstar Mercredi, working from Alberta, argues the fallout does not stop at provincial lines: water flowing through Alberta continues into other provinces and across the border into the United States, so the deregulation touches drinking water, fishing, and traditional land use far beyond where the bills were signed. The film gives particular attention to First Nations treaty territories, where hunting, fishing, and water rights are treaty-protected, and to a $186 million cut that ended the First Nation Water and Wastewater Action Plan entirely. Mercredi frames water itself as a living thing owed protection for future generations, and asks viewers who canoe, camp, or simply drink tap water to reckon with what got signed away with little public debate.