House emergency debate on Nova Scotia lobster conflict underway, as feds say Indigenous people ‘let down,’ more police deployed to ‘keep peace’ amid rising tensions

'We are not looking at implementing quotas within the fishery. This is not going to impact commercial harvesters with regards to a quota-based system as some people have suggested. There is no intention of changing the quota,' says Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, pictured on the Hill on Oct. 19, 2020, with Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, condemned violence that erupted in recent days in Nova Scotia involving commercial fishermen and an Indigenous fishery as 'disgusting, unacceptable, and racist in nature.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PALAK MANGAT

October 19, 2020

Police have “let down” Indigenous people in Nova Scotia amid rising tensions in the ongoing lobster dispute, says Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, while Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says more police are needed to “maintain the peace” as violent acts continued on the weekend. S...

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