The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs have rejected its portion of a CAD 259 million (USD 180 million, EUR 172 million) offer from the Canadian government to support commercial fisheries access, claiming the funding undermines their treaty rights
“This proposal raises serious alarms,” Chief Wilbert Marshall, co-lead of the assembly’s fisheries portfolio, said in a statement. “[The Department of Fisheries and Oceans'] approach reminded us of earlier initiatives from the 2000s, which failed to respect and uphold our inherent rights. Our treaty right to fish is not a commercial fishery.”
The Canadian government have offered the funding to Atlantic Canada’s First Nations, which they can use to ...