Cut the crap about conservation, when it’s colonialism that rules the conversation

Make no mistake, this is not a conservation issue, it is an issue of environmental racism by the denial of Indigenous rights, underscored by the violence necessary to enforce white supremacy.

Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair speak to reporters in the Sir John A. Macdonald Building on Oct. 19 about the conflict between Indigenous and commercial lobster fishers in Nova Scotia.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

October 21, 2020

CALGARY—Land acknowledgements are the kind of performances Canadians love to engage in that substitute platitudes for justice. And now the feces have hit the fan. For the past few weeks, the Mi’kmaq people have been asserting their rights to trap lobster off-season, first negotiated in a series...

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